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a group of boulders strewed over the sunny side of the hill. 

 I met with a viper basking on one of the deserted floors. 

 The huts extended circuitously round the high bank onwards 

 to above the Pebble burn ravine ; some of them being still 

 preserved near the burn sides. The rest were carted off to 

 construct the fences surrounding the fields. 



I pass the Pebble, or Diamond, or Havvsden burn, merely 

 remarking that, by the side of its stream, after a flood, we may 

 see in what manner a rapid flowing water assorts and deposits 

 gravel : not level, but ridgy, wave behind wave, like the 

 successive flow of glitters pushed down a hill-side. 



In order to pick up a few miscellaneous items, I shall 

 glance over to the fine castellated crag of blue porphyry, 

 called the Housy Crag, or House of Crag, which towards 

 evening imparts so much grandeur to the ridge. On one of 

 the eminences of the crag, facing Hedgehope which lies 

 westerly, lie two blocks of the well-marked porphyry of that 

 hill ; one of them being partially suspended over the cliff. 

 As there is a hollow interval of half-a-mile or so betwixt the 

 crag and Hedgehope, these must either have been dropped by 

 an iceberg, or have slipped from a melting glacier. There 

 are three or four tumuli of large dimensions on the slope 

 beneath the crag; but hut-circles are few, the soil being 

 moist. The modern wood at the base of the hill is traversed 

 by old dikes and enclosures. Somewhere on the heights 

 above Langlee is Carr's Fold. In rebuilding it, a cist was 

 found, of the short form, containing human bones, which 

 crumbled into dust. In the moors behind the ridge, towards 

 Three-stone burn, in cutting peat on a dry moor, an ancient 

 whetstone was recovered, at the depth of eighteen inches, 

 supposed to have sunk to that depth in the course of years. 

 The stone had been an oblong, seven inches long, and one 

 inch square at the ends. The edges had been rounded by 

 sharpening with it, and it had either been badly used or 

 applied to coarse implements, as it was unequal. It was a 

 " burn-stone," of a grey colour. It was found near the 

 " Prashy syke " ; a corruption, I suppose, for rushy. Also 

 in cutting peat, and at about the same depth, several horns of 

 cattle have been observed, not differing from those of the 

 present domestic breed. Half-way up Hedgehope, facing 

 Three-stone burn, a few years since, a very fine ancient quern 

 was found among some boulders ; which from the very large 



