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and in many cases entirely rebuilt. At the new and commodi- 
ous farm-steading of Cadham, tenanted by Mr David Russell, 
partner in the firm of Robert Tullis & Co., papermakers (whose 
extensive mills lie below in the valley of the Leven), there is an 
avenue of young plane trees, planted on each side of the public 
road leading to the town of Leslie. Beyond this is a lodge, 
painted Indian red, made of strong planks of timber driven 
vertically into the ground 9 inches apart, and sheeted up on 
each side with 14 inch deals, between which flax refuse is tightly 
packed. This makes a very comfortable tenement, warm in 
winter, and cool in summer. A set of hand-wrought iron gates 
from Falkland Palace, famous for having confined the redoubt- 
able Rob Roy in one of his cattle-lifting expeditions, open on a 
new road leading to Leslie House. On the east side is a thriving 
plantation of Scots pine and rhododendrons, sheltering it from 
the east wind. The road is over a mile in length, and for the 
first half it is planted on each side with lime trees and Wey- 
mouth and Scots pines alternately. The river Leven runs for 
about two miles through the policies, and is seen in the bottom 
of the valley, till the road enters Queen Mary’s famous beech 
avenue. The trees in the avenue stood well until the destructive 
“Royal Charter Gale” of 1859, when many of the noblest fell, 
blown down by the violence of the storm. The gaps have been 
filled up with oaks—the oak being the badge of the Leslie clan. 
This avenue now forms an approach to the east front of Leslie 
House, towards which a turreted bridge of substantial masonry 
carries it across the Lothie Burn, at a beautiful spot, well known 
in the locality as “The meeting of the waters.” Leslie House 
was built by the Duke of Rothes, when Lord Chancellor of 
Scotland, after the same design, quadrangle and all, as Holy- 
rood House, and by the same architect, Sir John Bruce of 
Kinross. In the year 1759 three sides of it were burnt to the 
ground, including a gallery 17 feet longer than that of Holy- 
rood, and containing the second best library in Scotland. The 
remaining, or fourth side of the quadrangle now constitutes 
Leslie House—and is yet far too large for the size of the 
estate, two-thirds of which were sold to pay the cost of the 
extravagant funeral of the Duke of Rothes. This funeral was 
ordered by King Charles II., and is said to have cost over 
£266,000, a sum equivalent to something like two millions 
sterling. The funeral procession is said to have been 15 miles 
in length. The procession walked from the palace of Holyrood 
to Queensferry, and thence to Leslie Kirkyard, where His 
grace’s remains now lie in the aisle of the Rothes family. 
On the south side of Leslie House are a series of terrace 
gardens leading down to the Leven. At the end of the upper 
