Contents. 



— The Barony of Over Liberton — Liberton Village — John Pounds 

 and Dr Guthrie — Proprietors of Upper Liberton — Liberton House 

 and its architectural features — Structural design of Liberton 

 Tower— The Braid Hills— Mortoiihall— The Balm Well— Burdie- 

 house and Straiton — The Pentlands — RuUion Green — The 

 Martyrs' Monument — Hugh M'Kail — Old Woodhouselee — 

 Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh and the Regent Murray — The 

 modern Woodhouselee — The Tytler family — Relics of Queen 

 Mary at Woodhouselee ...... i68 



VIIL— PROXIMATE LANDSCAPE. 



Duddingston village and loch — Duddingston parish church — The 

 Rev. Robert Monteith — The Rev. John Thomson — Easter Dud- 

 dingston Lodge — PefFer Mill — " Half-hangit Maggie Dickson" — 

 Craigmillar Irrigated Meadows — The ancient forest of Druni- 

 selch — Large antlers of red deer found — Bridgend — Priestfield or 

 Prestonfield — Niddrie— The Wauchopes of Niddrie — Colonel 

 Wauchope of the Black Watch — Edmonstone — Little France — 

 Kingston Grange — Moredun — Story of Baron MoncriefF and 

 James Boswell — Stenhouse — The Stenhouse witches — Lady 

 Gilton — Hyvot's Mill — Gilmerton — The "subterranean cave" — 

 The tragedy of Burntdool — The Drum — Successive proprietors 

 of the Drum— Conclusion ...... 206 



Index ......... 243 



