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has an old Roman road on tlie face of it, and they 

 hold " more than Roman sway^^ on the loftier Gar- 

 roch as well. From Bellyhucht the range stretches 

 away by Scatlaw Mains, where 



" Last May a braw wooer 

 Cam doon the lang glen," 



and past the little bnrial-place of the Queensberry 

 family, when they dwelt at Durisdeer, till it is at 

 last lost in the great neutral sheep heights of the 

 Louthers. 



Drumlanrig Castle is in the valley three miles from 

 Thornhil], close by the burn side, and backed up 

 on the south by a chain of woodlands. There is no 

 foxhunting here, and the cubs are strictly gathered 

 up for England. The rams' horns staircases to the 

 entrance were in course of alteration at Drum- 

 lanrig Castle, and the gardens, over which Mr. 

 Macintosh (brother to the James Macintosh who 

 did with his pen for Scottish trees what Parson Gil- 

 pin did with his pencil for English) presides with a 

 staff of a hundred men, were of course not in their 

 bloom. In fact^ there were only the gravel com- 

 binations left, to make us realize autumn, when (as 

 we afterwards proved) the scene from the terrace 

 almost forbids a sigh after " sweet Bowhill.^^ 



The Duke of Buccleuch has 2,500 acres at Tibbers 

 and Holstane, under the management of his farm 

 steward, Mr. Johnstone. Twenty years ago, the 

 Galloways were the only stock on the farms; but 

 since then Ayrshires have been introduced, and 



