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anxiously scanned the movements of the Scottish army, or 

 brooded over the forlorn condition of his own hemmed-in and 

 ill-provisioned troops. Here, among the shrubbery, is the 

 grave-stone — a slab — of Sir William Douglas, of Kirkness, 

 who fell on the Covenanting side, along with the two Homes 

 of Wedderburn (father and son), who, however, were buried 

 in the Collegiate Church of Dunglass. There are some good 

 trees in the park, and some old yews round " The Mount." 

 Tortula levipila was the only rarity picked up. The exten- 

 sive gardens, green-houses, and forcing-houses were examined. 

 The gardens are rather chilled by proximity to the sea, and 

 by the too frequent ingress of the north-east wind. A species 

 of Doronicum grows extensively, half wild, near the lodge at 

 the exit to the public road, and was then in flower. 



Dunbar Church, and the monument to George Home, of 

 Manderston, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland under James 

 VI., were the next objects of attention. The monument is 

 evidently a foreign production. No native artist at that 

 period could have wrought so skilfully in marble. It is dis- 

 figured by the pulpit being placed in front of it. In the 

 churchyard are some interesting tombs, one to a Ramsay of 

 Edington, a scion of the Dalhousie family. With some pains 

 the inscription might be legible. Mr Ritchie, the highly re- 

 spected town clerk, kindly invited the Club to inspect some 

 antiquities of which he is the fortunate possessor. These are 

 (1) the shield of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, which he 

 cast away on the fatal field of Culloden ; (2) a black letter 

 copy of Holinshed's History, with wood-cuts, in wooden 

 boards ; (3) some MSS. of Burns in the poet's own hand- 

 writing, particularly the song of (t Bonnie Jean," " The Elec- 

 tion," and a letter to Captain Riddell, with his signature. 

 The first and most important of these relics recalls to memory 

 the "Relicta non bene Parmula," to which Horace (Book ii., 

 Ode 7) playfully alludes, in token of the exercise on his own 

 part of the discretion which is the better part of valour. Its 

 history has been scarcely less adventurous than that of its 

 unfortunate owner ; as will be seen from the following letter 



