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unsubdued neighbours when they stormed and burned it, not 

 improbably led by their greve himself acting in punishment 

 of his restless British tributaries ? When the circular huts 

 of Greve's Ashe were examined by Mr. Tate and myself, 

 remains of charred wood were found • in all parts of them, 

 more or less. I do not now doubt that the whole collection 

 of huts and sheds had been stormed, and consumed by fire. 



II. — Hedgehope. 

 "Hedgehope," more properly "Headgehope," is the second 

 in elevation of the Cheviot Hills. The popular pronuncia- 

 tion, which is as if the word were written " Heedgehope," 

 or " Hidgehope," shows that the initial element is not hedge, 

 which is never so pronounced ; and which is plainly inap- 

 plicable in the designation of this bold and conspicuous 

 hill, obtusely conical in form, but attaining nearly 2,300 

 feet of elevation above the sea. Headgehope, moreover, 

 occupies a commanding position on the English side of the 

 Cheviot range, of which it is an integral member. Between 

 it and Cheviot Hill, or Cheviot Fell, proper, is the narrow 

 dale or " hope " of Harthope, through which flows a moun- 

 tain burn which receives its designation therefrom. Thus 

 on its steep northern and western declivities is Headgehope 

 bounded. To the south it has Linhope, an upland dale 

 among the heather and the bracken, with bright sunny 

 slopes and rocky braes, clad in part with graceful birch and 

 rowan, thorn and hazel, and aspen ; with a limpid burn of 

 mossy water, which forms two or three graceful lins, or 

 cascades. To the east of the hill, or mountain, is Calderhope, 

 an open pastoral " hope," or small moorland dale, with its 

 accompanying burn and characteristic vegetation, but not 

 so sunny, varied, and attractive as Linhope. On the south- 

 eastern flank alone is Headgehope met by high moorlands, 

 and here it is but a narrow ridge from Dunmoor Hill, or 

 Hartside, which extends itself so as to constitute a sort of 

 saddle^ by which the bold heights of Hartside become, as it 

 were, a southern buttress to Headgehope ; the graceful 

 rounded cone of which is clad in purple heather and delicate 

 cloud-berry, grassy bent, and waving bracken. And no- 

 where is the shadow-play of the clouds more lovely, than over 

 the surfaces of these hills on a summer's day. Nowhere do 

 the clouds themselves in showery weather, more delight to 

 descend with their mysterious curtains, or reveal more 



