Crossword-Solution: ESKS 4 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This same year the plunderers in East-Anglia and Northumbria greatly harassed the land of the West-Saxons by piracies on the southern coast, but most of all by the esks which they built many years before.

Then King Alfred gave orders for building long ships against the esks, which were full-nigh twice as long as the others.

The principal rivers are the North and South Esks and the Water of Leith, all running into the Forth.

But aften he thought, As he gaed through the glen, She's a fule to refuse The Laird o' Cockpen." We linger a few minutes by Newbattle Abbey, founded by David I., for a community of Cistercian monks, brought hither from Melrose, but now the residence of the Marquis of Lothian; and soon after reach the old "burgh town" of Dalkeith, most delightfully situated between the two Esks, and reminding us forcibly of "Mansie Waugh," the _pawkie tailor_ of Dalkeith, whose amusing history we read in our boyhood.

But the grounds around it are infinitely more attractive, adorned, as they are, with magnificent trees and shrubbery, and the serpentine windings of the two Esks, whose waters unite in the park, a little distance below the house.