100 Notes on the Catrail. By Miss Russell. 



Tweed by the Peel burn comes up a dry and firm hillside. It is 

 at Penmanscore that the king (in the ballad) appoints the Out- 

 law Murray to meet him. 



A fourth name which may stand for the Britons occurs on the 

 south side of the hiU here ; the Cameron Burn, which I take to 

 be " Cambrian." I think I detect some faint indications that 

 the clan-name may mean Cambrian rather than Crooked Nose ; 

 the analogy of Galbraith, the British Stranger, for one thing. 



A fifth is recorded at Williamhope, of which the old name was 

 Galeswood, that is Waleswood. Sixthly, the conspicuous summit 

 now (and in the Act of Parliament of 1681) called the Three 

 Brethern Cairn, is marked by Pont about 1620 as the Brethwen 

 Hill. This can hardly be a misprint of the longer name, which 

 I believe to be an attempt to get a meaning out of an old name 

 which was the southern equivalent of Dunbreatan or Dumbar- 

 ton. Pont has a Three Brethren Hill, three summits near the 

 head of the Black Esk. A beacon on the Brethren Hill would 

 communicate at once with High Cheviot and the Dumfrieshire 

 hills, besides the nearer ones. To the east of this hill are some 

 low earthworks, nearly level with the ground ; but further east, 

 on the Peat Law, and what is now called the Linglee HUl, I be- 

 lieve is one of the most distinct portions of the Catrail, and 

 visible to the naked eye. I have always looked for it too far 

 west. The Saxons being as near as Old Melrose in the seventh 

 century, accounts for the work being stronger and more recent 

 here than among the higher hills. I find that Lessedwyn, the 

 old name of Lesudden, has long been recognised as meaning 

 Edwin's Court, or something of the kind, in Welsh ; while the 

 Eildon Hills are called Edwin's Cliffe in the Saxon Chronicle. 

 The original frontier of the Eomanized Britons would certainly 

 extend to the important Eoman station at the Eildons ; and 

 there is an Arthurshiels to the south-east ; but the dedication to 

 St Helena at Lindean, on the Ettrick below Selkirk, and her 

 name connected with a well at Melrose, rather give the idea, in 

 connection with some interesting observations about the Saxon 

 kings elsewhere, that Edwin of Deira had pushed his frontier to 

 the Ettrick. 



The Yair Cribs' Hill, mentioned by Gordon, I find is a con- 

 siderable part of the hill, and no doubt the Catrail does go over 

 some part of it. The name of Linglee is now only used for the 

 farm to the town of Selkirk, while Gordon apparently uses it for 



