Note 104 — DERBYSHIRE FOLK-LORE
Reading edition
As regards “Mirryland town,” it appears that the soil of the Morayland, in North-East Scotland, is gravelly, and much improved by summer rains. Hence the distich:—
A misty May and a dropping June Brings the bonny land of Moray aboon.
—Chambers, Popular Rhymes of Scotland, new ed., p. 269.