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Crai^millar and its Environs. 



Dormer Window. 



The date 1636 appears above a dormer window, and 

 sun-dials are to be seen <€•?, 

 on both the front and back *-^^.ti- 

 of the house. The thick- 

 ness of the walls shows the 

 general desire for security 

 at that time, and clearly 

 indicates the characteristics of the 17th century. In 

 recent years the aspect of affairs has greatly changed 

 at Peffer Mill. The mill lade, and along with it the 

 dam, with the swans proudly swimming on its surface, 

 have disappeared, and the iron wheel, now rusty and 

 uncared for, has long since ceased to revolve. A 

 century ago a bleachfield for gauze and thread existed 

 at Peffer Mill, which employed a great many hands. 

 A public-house was also near there in 1728, as we know 

 from the following strange circumstance. In that year 

 a woman named Maggie Dickson was hanged in Edin- 

 burgh. Her friends, in conveying her body in a cart 

 back to Musselburgh, to which place she belonged, 

 called at the public-house in question to get a " dram," 

 doubtless considering that the eerie character of their 



