Dry burgh Abbey. 



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And then for old keeps and peel towers, and famous 

 ruins, and still more famous houses not ruins, on its 

 borders, what river can equal Tweed ? There is 

 Melrose Abbey the prince of them all ; there is 

 Dryburgh Abbey, with its 'celebrated burial-place, 



DKYBURGH ABBEY. 



and Norham Castle lower down, on Northumberland 

 side, overhanging the steep, a fortress that figured 

 largely in stories of battles and sieges,* and makes 



* In Mr. Hubert E. H. Jerningham's interesting volume, published 

 by Wm. Patterson of Edinburgh, will be found the fullest details 



