38 SCOTLAND ILLUSTRATED. 



From Beinersyde hill,* we obtain a various and most imposing view of all 

 the striking features for which the banks of the Tweed, at this point, are so 

 remarkable. Hills, valleys, fertile fields, wood, and water — all combine in the 

 landscape, and form a rich and vaiiegated picture. The suspension-bridge 

 over the Tweed, two hundred and sixty-one feet in length, was the munificent 

 gift of the late earl of Buchan, and has the twofold merit of great elegance 

 and utiHty. A small eminence at the end of the bridge is crovmed with a 

 circular temple, dedicated to the muses, wliich evinces the classic taste of the 

 same patriotic nobleman. The workmanship is of a superior order, the position 

 well chosen, and the eflfect of the building, as viewed in association with the 

 surrounding scenery, extremely agreeable. At a short distance, on the face 

 of the adjoining hill, a colossal statue of Wallace, erected by the same liberal 

 patron, is remarkable as the work of a native chisel, which had never received 

 a lesson in the art of sculpture. From the Jedburgh road, this statue forms 

 a most striking and apjjropriate feature in the landscape. 



But the chief and lasting object of attraction here, is Dryburgh Abbey, f 

 a name familiar to every reader of Border antiquities. So deep, however, 

 is the interest with which it has been recently invested, that the tombs of Arqua, 

 Ferrara, Ravenna, and even the immortal groves of Posihppo, have scarcely, 

 within so brief a space, witnessed so many distinguished votaries as here crowd 

 around that spot which the dust of our poet has consecrated. What in another 

 place, and among another people, has been said of Posilippo, and the tomb of 

 Virgil, may be applied with no little force and fidelity to the hallowed precincts 

 of Dryburgh — once a favourite scene, and now the sepulchre, of Scott. 



duty omitted, on the plea of illness, which in the pride of health she had been accustomed to discharge. 

 Her delight, says the worthy minister of the parish, was to employ a messenger of kindness, whose office 

 was to search out cases of distress, that to the indigent and helpless, the ignorant and thoughtless, to the 

 sick and dying, to widows and orphans, she might communicate timely and effectual relief. 1834. 



* Concerning this estate, Thomas of Ercildoun, as the reader will remember, pronounced the well-known 

 prophecy, 



" Tyde what may betide, Haig shall be laird of Bemerside." 



t This abbey is of great antiquity, and quotes in the history of its abbots the name of St. Modun, who 

 flourished in the middle of the sixth century, and was among the earliest christian missionaries in Britain. 

 The new abbey was founded in tlie middle of the twelfth century, by Hugh de Morville, lord of Lauderdale, 

 and his wife Beatrice de Beauchamp,* and confirmed by royal charter in the reign of king David I., who 

 may be distinguished as the monastic monarch of Scotland, from the number and importance of the religious 

 edifices which he founded and endowed. Dryburgh was burnt during the wars of Robert Bruce with the 

 English, but subsequently restored ; and after many vicissitudes, prosperous and adverse, shared at last in 

 the destruction with which, in common with the other temples of a falling hierarchy, it was visited during 

 the great moral cataclysm of the Reformation. 



• Bel'campo, Beauchamp, Campobello, hodie, Campbell. 



