11 CONTENTS. 



EiiiraKsii TO f Hi MMm mm. 



Arrival in Edinburgh — ^Professor Dick's " Constitution Hill" — Messrs. 

 Girdwood's Wool Stores — Origin of the Highland Society — Its En- 

 couragement of Gaelic — Its Early Aims — Original Members — Its 

 Agricultural Education — Gradual Development — Bagpipe Contests — 

 Cheese, Cured ]\Ieat, and Ploughing Prizes — Resume of the princi- 

 pal Cattle Shows — Present Competition Rules — Agricultural Statistics 

 Inquiry — The Council Chamber of the Society — Pictures of Winners 

 The Museum — White Crop Samples . . 65 — 104 



Coursing at the Roman Camp — Woolmet — Dirleton Common — The 

 Lothian Ram Sales — Camptown — Wood Pigeons — Stock in East 

 Lothian — The Grave of Phantassie — "WTiittingham — The Athelstane- 

 ford Herd— The East Lothian Hounds . . 105—143 



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Ride across the Lammermoors — The Highland Society's Show at Kelso 

 — A Sketch of it in 1833— Kelso Race-com-se — Kelso Ram Fair — 

 Scenes in the Sale Yard — Lord Polwarth's Sale — The Border Leices- 

 ters — The Yetholm Gipsies — The Earl of Wemyss's Hounds and 

 Hunters at Coldstream .... 144—166 



