Proximate Landscape. 



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here the celebrated forest of Drumselch — Gaehc, 

 druim sealche, i.e. the hill of the hunting — extended 

 almost to Holyrood. ' 



In Lord Somerville's time it was regarded as 





Drum House, from the South-East. 



the most beautiful place in Mid-Lothian, what is 

 still called the deer-park being tastefully laid out 

 in shrubberies. Lord Somerville sold the Drum 

 to Mr Hay, who worked the coal, and in a great 

 measure destroyed it as a residence. It then passed 



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