Ettrick

et'rlk, a district of Scotland in Selkirk, about a day's horseback ride to the south of Edinburgh. The Ettrick water and the Yarrow unite and flow into the Tweed a mile or two above Abbotsford. The region was at one time covered with the famous Ettrick forest. It is now a sheep pasture. "The Ettrick Shepherd" is the pen name of James Hogg, a somewhat celebrated Scottish writer. See Hogg; Yarrow; Tweed; Edinburgh