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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 361 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRAG (a See also:Celtic word, cf. Gael. creag, See also:Manx creg, and Welsh and See also:modern Scots See also:craig)  , a steep See also:rock . The word appears in many See also:place-names in the See also:north of See also:England and in See also:Scotland, and is also connected with " carrick," a word of similar meaning, also found in place-names . In See also:geology, the See also:term is applied to the strata in which a shelly See also:sand See also:deposit is found, and, in the expression " See also:crag and tail," to a formation of hills,, in which one See also:side is precipitous and lofty and the other slopes or " tails" gradually away, as in the See also:Castle Rock in See also:Edinburgh .

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