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Hooker, viz., a good walking stick, and go forth 

 by the road now made by Inverleithen kirk up 

 the Leithen Water between hills, until they get 

 near Middleton Muir. The distance is nearly 

 seventeen miles. I once took this road and 

 thought it would never have an end. 



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1 Gif way to heaven be sic a road, 

 I'll sit me down and weary.' 



Old song. 



At Roxburgh, the remains of the castle are 

 only seen. Here it was that James II. of 

 Scotland was killed in 1460, by the bursting of 

 a cannon, made probably from the trunk of a 

 tree, and hooped all round with iron. 



Kelso is situated on the Tweed, in the very 

 heart of fishing ground, near its confluence with 

 the Teviot, a capital treating river. It has a 

 very fine ruin of a monastery, and a beautiful 

 bridge over the Tweed. The Duke of Rox- 

 burghe's seat, Floors, is to the westward of the 

 town, which is not a manufacturing place like 

 Hawick or Galashiels, being situated in a purely 

 agricultural district. The proper flies for both 



