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Gadie, a burn of Aberdeenshire, rising in Clatt parish, and running 10½ miles east-by-northward through Leslie, Premnay, and Oyne parishes, till it falls into the Ury, 9 furlongs E of Oyne church. It is celebrated in several of the Latin poems of Arthur Johnston, and also in a fine old ballad, beginning -
O an I were where Gadie rins,
'Mang fragrant heath and yellow whins,
Or brawlin down the bosky linns,
At the back o' Bennochie.
After the capture of Pondicherry in 1793, a Highland regiment, marching into the town, was suddenly arrested by hearing this ballad sung by a Scottish lady from an open window.Ord. Sur., sh. 76,1874.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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Feature Description: | "a burn" (ADL Feature Type: "streams") |
Administrative units: | Aberdeenshire ScoCnty |
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