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.villa and cailie otWark, of Mr. Comptons feat by his villa of Car- 

 ham, and Shidlaw ; Sunney-laws , Preflfen, Learmouth, Old Many-laws ; 

 the whole bounded by a femicircular range of hills, of the Ilir- 



fel-laiv, Hume-CajHe, both the property of the Earl of Hume; Stich- 

 hill, the feat of Sir Robert Pringle, Bart. Eilding-hills, within about 

 a mile of the famous abbey of Melrofs, Hofe-law, Limpot-law, 

 Stand-alone-hill; the hills of Tethdm, Hare-law, and Cheviot, i. e. 

 the chief of all the hills for height and magnitude, overtopping 

 all the reft, giving a moft extenfive and beautiful land and fea- 

 profpect on a clear day. 



A quarter of a mile fouth-eafl from Cornhill, is an incampmcnt, 

 the moft remarkable of any north of the Roman wall, for extent, 

 variety of military works, covered ways, large and fpacious, 

 with numerous curvatures, defended by ranges of terraced hills, 

 and a morafs at feveral angles and fides of the hills ; many of 

 them exploratory and fepulchral, of the ufual figure, conic ; the 

 hollows remaining, and filled with water, from which the earth 

 was taken for raifmg them. They were the funeral repofitories 

 of great chieftains ; the common men being buried without any 

 fuch diftindlion, many of their remains being digged up on the 

 ridge of a hill, called Bkal- Lands, oppofite to the medical fpring. 



Two miles weft from Cornhill, on the banks of the Tweed, and 

 in fight, is 



Wark-CaJlle, which was the barony of the antient family of 

 Ros (pj, barons of Helmjley in TorkJIoire. Robert de Ros, in the 

 reign of K. Henry II, married one of the daughters of William 



(P) * , 



Roas. 



King 



