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" Yonder the coast of Fife you saw. 

 There Preston Bay and Berwick Law ; 

 And l)road between them rolled, 

 The trallant Fi-ith the ej'e might note, 

 ^\'~hose islets on its liosom float. 

 Like emeralds chafed in gold." 



Scott. 



Coursing at tlic Roinau Camp — "Woolmet — Dirleton Commoa — The 

 Lothiau Ram Sales — CamptoAvn — Wood Pigeous — Stock in East 

 Lothiau — The Grave of Phantassie— Whittingham — The Athelstane- 

 ibrd Herd — The East Lothiau Hounds. 



^^ pT made no matter if the coursing was a little 

 ^ dull at times, there was ahA'aj^s the view, ^' 

 said " Will Nightingale," when he spoke to us of the 

 days when he went judging at the Roman Camp. 

 You reach this fine hanging slope of plough, grass, 

 and seeds, which faces the Pentland range, on one 

 side, b}^ the road behind Dalkeith. It lies only 

 two miles from the town, and rather less from the 

 Duke^s kennels ; and yet not once within the me- 

 mory of man was Will Williamson seen on the 

 field. The village of New Battle lies at the foot 

 of the coursing ground. Many of the best courses 

 began near the present site of the coal-pits ; and 

 the hare would make through Mayfield Farm to the 

 iirs of the Roman Camp (that favourite Runnymede 



