HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



Captain Sandilands, who had no money in his 

 pocket, borrowed a sovereign from me for the 

 Duke's keeper. I think every hound ran up, for 

 I rode home with the pack and did not hear any 

 were missing. This is a very imperfect account of 

 one of the finest runs I ever saw." ^ 



While some idea of the area hunted about this 

 time may have been formed from the foregoing 

 descriptions of runs, a more comprehensive one 

 will be derived from the account of the country 

 given by " The Druid," whose faculty of collecting 

 and recounting information is well known, and 

 whose works are a never-failing source of interest 

 and pleasure. 



*' East to west, from Corstorphine hill to Lee 

 Castle, the country runs about forty miles. The 

 Oarnwath covers are all fir plantations on the 

 hills, and the best of them belong to the Earl of 

 Home at Stone hill, near the Tinto boundary. The 

 covers are very middling, the fir plantations are 

 scarce and grown out, and there are very few 

 gorses. The best are round Wallhouse, nice and 

 dry fir plantings on the side of a hill, with heather 

 and rock. Near Wallhouse the country is gener- 

 ally old grass, and mostly plough near home. The 

 home country is not spoilt by wire, which is a 

 perfect pest in Carnwath without the alleviation 

 of telegraph-posts to the hunting-gates, as in the 



^ The point, according to measurement on the Ordnance Survey 

 map, is fully ten miles. 



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