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breeding is concerned. Herons frequently visit Bughtrig." 

 Adders lie accounts rare and none have been seen lately. Tbere 

 are still recollections of badgers having been hunted on the Kale. 

 Mr Simson, Oxnam Eow, who also farms Bughtrig, writes, '' It 

 is ten years since I captured a badger in Oxnam Water on my 

 hill, and I have his skin in the house.". 



Yellow Pansies continued to flourish till we gained Watling 

 Street, which in many places we found little better than a grass- 

 grown track, so seldom is it now travelled. It proceeds here 

 along a depression of the hills — a natural pass. Black-hall Eill 

 (1573 feet) fronted us on the left; its sides were seamed with 

 lengthways parallel ridges, as if the result of a series of land- 

 slips. We were now skirting on the left, part of Woden or 

 Wooden Law (1388 feet), where the triple rings of the camp on 

 the brow were manifest ; only one of the company visited it. 

 The next hill to it is called Luden. Passing beyond it, we had 

 a fine opening out of the view to the main part of Eoxburghshire, 

 but a mist blurred the distant country. The remarkable twin 

 Broundenlaws — Elfingshope and Edelshope — which as seen from 

 Euberslaw appear two dusky eminences emerging from a land of 

 twilight, were here close at hand, and not black and heathery as 

 was expected but green and grassy. Dunion and Euberslaw rose 

 unveiled above the haze. Carter Fell and the intermediate junc- 

 tion ridge, here and there swollen into partial prominences, 

 sharply define the boundaries of the sister countries. As we 

 skirted the rock-faced hill on our left, we looked down on sheer 

 descending steeps, here and there fissured by rugged cleughs, 

 and naked scaurs ; at others clad with verdurous ferns and dwarf 

 grasses, with more vivid green of rushes and moistened herbage 

 margining the little runlets ; while grazing sheep appeared to 

 hang from the declivities. The dark green bordered brooks, in 

 these guUeys, are the tributaries of the infant Kale, whose glit- 

 tering waters appeared on the lower ground beneath, where 

 Upper and Nether Hindhope stand near the single or collected 

 streams. These rivulets descend in ravines from a succession of 

 steep concavities scooped out from the north side of the range, 

 which here unite to form a hollow enclosure. They are sup- 

 plied by upland peat-mosses that overhang the sharp edges of the 

 ridges, and maintain a continuous trickling of moisture. 



One of the cleughs whose head we crossed is called Skerry- 

 burghope [perhaps Scauryburnhope]. Two of the places over- 



