22 Antiquities of Eskdalemuie. 



Lord Cranstoun was somewhat dismayed ; 

 'Tis said that five good miles he rade 

 To rid liim of his company, 



But where he rode one mile the Dwarf ran four, 

 And tlie Dwarf was first at tlie Castle door. 

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Use lessens marvel, it is said ; 

 This elfish Dwarf with the Baron staid, 

 Little he ate, and less he spoke. 

 Nor mingled with the menial flock : 

 And oft apart his arms lie tossed, 

 And often muttered Lost ! Lost ! Lost !" 



One remark before I leave this subject. Whatever may be 

 thought of my attempts to identify our once local "• Bogle at the 

 Todshawhill " with Scott's poetic creation the " Goblin Page," or 

 the " Baron's Dwarf," there can be very little doubt that the 

 identity is ther", and I leave you to discover for yourselves 

 other points of identity which had I the time I could have 

 laid before you. From this little excursion we have now paid to 

 the Black Esk, let us retrace our steps to the ^Yhite. I would say 

 a word or two about Wat Carrick Chapel and Churchyard, which 

 are about a mile straight south of the Church — the names are what 

 they are by reason of their proximity to a well -pronounced British 

 fort, which overlooks both, rather, I should say, two forts — the one 

 on the top of the hill, the other lower down. The term Caer 

 occurring in the word Kerroc (as I have already explained) stands 

 invariably wherever it occurs for hill fort. This Chapel of Wat 

 Carrick belonged originally to the Parish of Westerkirk, and 

 served the whole district of Upper Eskdale, not only until the year 

 1703, when Upper Eskdale was formed into a separate parish 

 called Eskdalemuir, but for nearly twenty years longer, until, in 

 short, the new parish of Eskdalemuir was in the position to possess 

 itself of a Church of its own, which it was able to do in the year 

 1722. Now crossing the river we find ourselves on the farm of 

 Cote ; the term Cote means mud cottage, and occurs in the names 

 Cauldcote, Hoscot. In a field raised some little elevation above 

 the level of the Esk, we have two circles of stones, in the form of 

 Druicidal temples (as Dr Brown styles them) — the one entire, 

 measuring about ninety feet in circumference, the other having a 

 portion of it worn away by the water, measuring about 340 feet. 

 The interior of this larger one, indeed, is so extensive that I have 



