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the Clippens and Straiton oil-companies, the amenity 

 of the district has been hterally destroyed and the 

 social conditions of the locality entirely changed within 

 the last quarter of a century, it being now the centre 

 of a large mining population. 



The Pentlands. — The Pentland range, seen so 

 conspicuously from Craigmillar, runs in a south- 

 westerly direction into Peeblesshire. Its geological 

 features have already been noticed in the chapter 

 on that subject. The farthest point of the range 

 within sight caps the undulating plain called Rullion 

 Green, where the defeat of the Covenanters took 

 place on 28th November 1666. The insurgents, led 

 by Colonel James Wallace, were resting themselves 

 as they best could, when suddenly they beheld 

 General Dalziel's army approaching. The Royal 

 troops were at once led to the assault. The Cove- 

 nanters behaved with courage, and twice repulsed 

 the attacks of the Royalists, but, as might be ex- 

 pected, nine hundred half-disciplined and ill-armed 

 men could not cope with three thousand well-equipped 

 soldiers led by an officer of Dalziel's experience. Fifty 



