of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, by J. Hardy. 433 



Falkland isles ; all of them shewing vigorous growth. A small 

 thriving example of the Maiden-hair tree (Salisburia adiantifolia), 

 a native of Japan, grew nearer the house. There were some 

 well-grown beeches in the sheltered hollow above the garden. 

 The garden is situated on a slope, and divided by stone walls, 

 which break it into terraces, and sustain fruit trees. There are 

 many fine perennial flowers in the borders. In the upper terrace 

 of the garden there is preserved an old stone, with the date 1661, 

 beneath a pious legend, such as was customary at that period : 

 " All is vanity, one thing is needful." This was brought from 

 Whytbank Tower, when it was dismantled to furnish sandstone 

 for the requirements of the present mansion. There is a British 

 camp within the circuit of the adjoining grounds. 



The road now climbs obliquely over the hill-side towards the 

 Eink farm, and lifts us above the dark line of plantations that 

 have hitherto interposed between us, and " the sister heights of 

 Yair," which now rise up brown and bulky, with Linglee hill 

 supporting them at the one end, and Fowlshiels hill standing be- 

 hind them at the other. The Eink camp, on the Catrail, is pre- 

 served by a fir plantation at no great distance on our left. Lang- 

 rink is the name of the lands in 1652, and in subsequent writs ; 

 the name perhaps being furnished by the Catrail having acted 

 as a boundary; for Jamieson states that " The Eink" is applied 

 to the line of division, on the Borders between Scotland and Eng- 

 land ; and the public market annually held a few miles from 

 Jedburgh, is for this reason still called "the Eink fair." There 

 is also a Eink Law in Berwickshire. It may be likewise noted, 

 that rincTc in Belgic signifies a little circlet or ring ;* and may 

 well apply to the separate links of detached camps, of which this 

 supposed ancient frontier in some of its positions principally con- 

 sists, such as its continuation in the line of forts on the Gala 

 water. It is only quite recently that the name Catrail has been 

 used for convenience as applicable to the Selkirkshire portion. 

 Gordon, who is the only real authority for the whole line, says 

 that in its southward course, " it passes the village of Bredly, in 

 Teviotdale, and crosses the Borthwick water ; here it is known 

 by the name of the Catrail, but to the northward of this place, 

 it is called the Picts-worh- Ditch."]- In the decreet of division of 



* Kilianus Auctus, p. 42. Amstelodami, 1642, 8vo. 

 t Gordon's Hinerarium Septentrionale, p. 103. Loadon, 1726. fol. 



