10 Mr. G. Turnbull on Edin's Hall. 



Desirous to supply the defects referred to, I have made the 

 necessary examiuations, measurements and inquiries, and I now 

 submit the result to the Society. 



Name. — The name given by the inhabitants of the district to 

 the ruins about to be described is Eedins Ha'. In conformity with 

 this their oral designation, the ' Scots Magazine,' which is the first 

 publication that notices them, calls them Eedins Hall. In a MS. 

 account of them by the late Mr. John Blackadder*, the name is 

 written Idenshall ; but it will be recollected that in Scotland the 

 letter / was formerly and is yet often pronounced like Ee. On 

 Armstrong's and Blackadder's maps of Berwickshire, and on 

 that published by Messrs. Sharp, Greenwood and Fowler, the 

 building is designated Wooden's Hall. The ordinary ortho- 

 graphy of the name, however, is that adopted in the present 

 paper. 



Site. — Edin's Hall lies about a mile east from Abbey St. Ba- 

 thans, on the hill called Cockburn Law, one of the range of the 

 Lammermoors. This hill rises to the height of 1049 feet above 

 the level of the sea f. From its summit an extensive prospect of 

 the country towards the south is obtained, including the Merse 

 and a considerable portion of the fertile plain watered by the 

 Tweed and its tributaries, and bounded by the Cheviots at a 

 distance of more than twenty miles, and the remoter hills of the 

 county of Roxburgh. The sea is nearly hidden by ])art of the 

 mountain range, which runs inland from St. Abb's Head, and by 

 the high ground which stretches from that range by Colding- 

 ham, Ayton and Lamberton towards Berwick. Yet glimpses 

 of it are got at two or three places where there are depressions 

 in the land. 



Edin's Hall itself is not so situated as to command any exten- 

 sive prospect. Its site is on the northern side of Cockburn Law, 

 where the horizon is much circumscribed by the adjoining hills, 

 and where the view is confined to a few miles of the valley of 

 the Whitadder, and of the adjoining valley of the Eye. 



* Mr. John Blackadder, of Blanerne East-side, an accurate land mea- 

 surer and surveyor. He was the author of the best ma}) of the county of 

 Berwick, prior to that of Messrs. Sharp and Co., published in 1826. 



t The height of Cockburn Law above the sea is usually stated to be 

 912 feet; this however is incorrect. The following may be regarded as 

 a near approximation to the true height : — 



feet. 

 Platform of Railway Station at Grant's House above the sea . . 366 



St. Bathans Cottage above the said platform 109 



Summit of Cockburn Law above that cottage 574 



In all 1049 



Of these measurements the first was ascertained by levels taken for the 

 North British Railway, and the two last by several sets of barometrical 

 observations. 



