Sometimes when I've been reading a bit, coming along the downs all by myself like, I've seen somebody in the distance; and I've said to myself, "Well, now, if that was only to turn out to be that black-a-vised ayrshire ploughman, it would be all over with me; it would be 'Whistle and I'll come to ye, my lad.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
They are very common in some parts of Scotland, as in ayrshire, and are frequently ranged along the line of a fault in the strata.
"Geology"
James Geikie
The last I shot were with S. in ayrshire in cold, and wind and wet and a grey light on high moorland, about the 1st of last October.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch