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pentance Hill. The course is nearly the same as the 

 General had when he trained P&rlet, and Messalina 

 from old Myrrha. He also kept beagles and har- 

 riers, and sold the latter to Mr. Ramsay, along with 

 Myrrha, who was heavy in-foal with Midlothian, 

 for J300. The cream of the Dumfriesshire country 

 can be seen from here, and our companion indicated 

 the geography of a great run, how they found at 

 Castle Milk, came over Bar Hill through the Duke's 

 cover and Brown Moor, and hov/ he died honourably 

 in the meadow below the castle. Eepentance Tower 

 to the right, and built by an ancient lord of Hoddom, 

 to atone for the souls he had sunk in the Solway^ 

 almost flings its shadow over the birth-place of 

 Thomas Carlyle ; and farther on is 



" That wooded hill 

 Far kenned as Woodcockair." 



It has always been a great harbour for foxes, and it 

 is recorded that after the Revolution the Hoddom 

 men ran their curate, Timothy Thomlinson, to ground 

 or to tree in it, across the Annan, and never lieard 

 of him more. 



Mr. Sharpens hares were trotting about near the 

 March fence betwixt the lairds of " Hoddom" and 

 '^Dormont," on Ronald's Hill, above the Dum- 

 friesshire kennels. Joe Graham put on his Cumber- 

 land clogs, and came with us as guide ; but scenery 

 was as nothing to him, mdcss ^^ the noble science" 

 was blended with it. , He had no eyes from that 

 coicjn of vantage for the silver line of the Sol way and 



