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preserved in the farm-house of Birdoswald. Amhloganna is the 

 twelfth station on the line. It is the largest of all the stations. 

 The walls of the station show good masonry, and are in a good 

 state of preservation. It presents one of the finest specimens 

 of a camp. The gateways show the sockets, where the hinges 

 moved, and the grooves worn by the wheels. The prospect from 

 the station, both to the north and the south, is very striking. 

 The late Earl of Carlisle, in his "Diary on Turkish and Greek 

 Waters" (p. 87), says, "Strikingly, and to any one who has 

 coasted the uniform shore of the Hellespont, and crossed the 

 tame low plain of the Troad, unexpectedly lovely is this site of 

 Troy, if Troy it was. I could give any Cumberland borderer 

 the best notion of it by telling him that it wonderfully resembles 

 the view from the point just outside the Eoman Camp of Bird- 

 oswald ; both have that series of steep conical hills, with rock 

 enough for wildness and verdure enough for softness ; both have 

 that bright trail of a river creeping in and out with the most 

 continuous indentations : the Simois has, in summer at least, 

 more silvery shades of sand."** 



Looking towards the north-west, from the road skirting the 

 north-west of the station, a tower-like object is seen; it is a 

 fragment of the walls of Triermain Castle, an old "Peel" build- 

 ing celebrated by Scott in his " Bride of Triermain." 



After a most pleasant walk to Gilsland, the Spa was visited. 

 From the foot of a shale and sandstone cliff, about one hundred 

 feet high, the sulphur stream bursts in a full gush of clear 

 sparkling water, a few feet above the bed of the river Irthing. 

 The banks of the Irthing in the immediate vicinity of the Spa 

 are bold and rocky. The Yellow Saxifrage, Saxifraga azoides, 

 which grows on the cliffs in considerable abundance, was much 

 admired. 



Gilsland occupies one of the highest table lands between the 

 Irish Sea and the German Ocean. It is the most northern of 

 the English Spas, and is situated near the line of separation be- 

 tween JSTorthumberland and Cumberland, in the latter county. 

 Gilsland, independent of its other merits in regard to scenery 



* Bruce's Wallet Book, p. 184, 



