EDINBURGH TO THE ROMAN CAMP. 8i 



Young and Craig's^ Aitchison^s^ and Donald Home's, 

 and then his nephew young Moodlaw took up the 

 running with Elliot, Borthwick, and Patterson of 

 Tereggles. Among the blackfaced classes, on the 

 other hand, we meet with Blacklock of Minnygap, 

 Dryfe, Watson, Alexander Denholm, ^Murray of 

 Eastside, Wilson of Crosshouse, and Aitken of Liston- 

 sheils. 



The Caithness and Sutherland men with Hous- 

 toun of Kintradwell, amongst them, brought their 

 forces well up at Inverness in ^31, when ]\Iac- 

 pherson of Belville swept four blackfaced prizes, 

 and Corryhoyiie descended from the mountains with 

 his buck goats. Mr. Blamire, who had just been 

 elected as the colleague of Sir James Graham in East 

 Cumberland, and whose white horse '' Cappy^' had 

 carried him to all the fairs and markets of Scotland 

 for many a year, when he slept in the saddle and 

 never dreamt of St. Stephen^s or the Tithe Office, 

 judged his beloved shorthorns with the Marquis 

 of Tweeddale, at Kelso. Stirling in ^33 witnessed 

 the intellectual activity of Mr. Smith of Deanston 

 in every detail down to the arrangement of the hall 

 for dinner, a ceremony which was so well observed at 

 Aberdeen in ^34, that deputations kept moving be- 

 tween the three rooms, to inform the respective chair- 

 men that their healths had been drunk, and the 

 chairman who sat the longest proposed " the health 

 of the departed.^' Captain Barclay was in force with 

 his cows, and so was Lord Kintore with his '^ ox ;'-^ 



