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come down to lend his assistance. Tiiat gentleman joined 

 the party at lunch, — a very excellent one, thanks to mine 

 host of Ravenshall. It consisted of fish, joints of various 

 kinds, game, sweets, &c. Our dining room, a long, open 

 but covered arbour in the garden, where we looked out 

 upon the sea, the opposite side of the Bay of "Wigtown, and 

 Isle of Man, — a splendid view. 



Refreshed, we started, under Mr Hannah's guidance, a 

 short way through the woods to Barholm Castle, — an easy 

 way to those who know it, rather tangled to those who do 

 not. The wood consisted chiefly of oak copse composed of 

 both species of oak, Q. rohur and sessiliflora. The latter 

 is by no means common in Scotland, but was here in nearly 

 equal proportion, and was easily distinguished among the 

 stock shoots both by its general aspect and by its lessile 

 fruit.* Barholm Castle is nearly of the same plan as 

 Carseluith, and is in rather better repair. The front door 

 or entrance is ornamented by the rope moulding knotted at 

 the two ends. Here the farm steading is also too near, in 

 one part even attached, and close to the garden, some of the 

 walls of which seem old. Instead of Aspleniurti ruta 

 muraria which covered Carseluith we have a luxuriant crop 

 of Asp. trichomanis on the castle and old garden walls. The 

 garden in front of Barholm farm-house also bespoke the 

 mildness of the climate ; large fuschias were again seen in 

 full flower, and Wigelia rosea stood eight feet high. 



Leaving Barholm we crossed the country to Cairn Holly 

 Farm, where the Galwegian King Galdus is supposed to 

 have been buried. Of the fact there are various opin- 

 ions and assertions. Here, in front of Cairn Holly stead- 

 ing, there has been a covered stone kist or grave sur- 

 rounded by long standing slabs. It is stated that this kist 

 had been long since opened, and on examination no doubt 

 it had been so, and nothing was found or seen to induce any 

 prolonged stay. Below the farm in the valley near to the 



* Professor Babington says " He has failed to learn bow to distinguieh 

 them." Sir W. J. Hooker keeps them distinct. 



