UPHILL OLD CHURCH. = 
As the antiquary ascends the path leading from 
the modern village to the church, the first vestige 
ofthe ancient town meets his eye in the shape of an 
escarpment on the naturally steep slope of the hill, 
now faintly marked, but evidently artificial, and 
without doubt intended to render the ascent more 
defensible—a precaution the necessity of which 
was fully proved in those ages when the coasts of 
this island were exposed to the inroads ofthe Danes, 
Uphill having more than once been destroyed by 
the piratical warriors of the North. The compara- 
tively level summit of the hill is marked in all 
directions with the traces of ancient earth works, 
to the plan of which I have no clue whatever, 
though I think the termination ofthe Roman road 
may be perceived near the east fence of the church- 
yard; and on the south side of the hill, artificial 
escarpments are plainly to be seen, and, I think, an 
ancient landing place and wharf, by what I suppose 
to have been the Roman harbour; but being a 
stranger in the neighbourhood, and having no help 
beyond that of my own sight, having moreover the 
fear of Edie Ochiltree's “I mind the bigging o't’ 
before my eyes, and fully impressed with Mr. Old- 
buck’s mortification when the sacrificial utensil with 
the inscription AD U turned out to be simply 
Aiken Drum’s Lang Ladle, I will leave these relics 
of ancient nations to more learned and more daring 
antiquaries than myself, and will confine my obser- 
vations to what actually exists of the a old 
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