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maternal great grandfather of Sir Walter Scott — ** the shireff," 

 as the document quoted phrases it. In the Latin inscription, 

 which will, if there is space, be given afterwards, the deceased 

 is thus apostrophised: "0! thrice happy man! Thy fame is 

 above the lofty mountains and green banks of Yarrow! Thy 

 spirit beyond the stars !" 



A stone of red sandstone is built into the^wall at the western 

 door, having on it a sun-dial and inscription : 

 WATCH & PEAY. 

 TIME IS SHOET. 

 The date is 1640. This dial belonged to Deuchar kirk, which 

 Yarrow superseded, taking its place as well as that of the 

 chapel at Kirkhope ; and also of the mother church of St. Mary 

 of the Lowes ; the church which feudal strife laid low. 



" Opposite Yarrow church," Mr Andrew Ourrie, who was our 

 guide and instructor for the day, writes, ' ' on the south of the 

 river is a deep hollow with a shepherd's house —the name of 

 this place is Kershope, and I can recollect a common remark in 

 my young days — that in the shorter days of winter, the sun did 

 not shine on Kershope for three weeks — now-a-days this does 

 not hold good. An old track runs from here westward on the 

 hill-slope, having the name of ' Harden's drive.' " 



Some well-grown ash trees, as if they had sheltered an old 

 dwelling, were passed near a green pasture above the roadside, 

 and a grave was pointed out, among the gravel, at the top of the 

 bank overhanging the highway, in which a skeleton had become 

 exposed, but every scrap of bones had been purloined, as might 

 have been expected, when the side of the grave was left unpro- 

 tected. The field near this belonging to Whitehope farm, called 

 Annan Street, is that which contains the lettered "Yarrow 

 Stone," and the other two unhewn upright rude monoliths, one 

 of which stands near the shepherd's house, which, from having 

 been built among cist-graves has obtained the modern misleading 

 name of "Warriors' Eest." This field in its uncultivated state 

 was " covered with cairns and graves," and appears to have been 

 a burial place of pre-historic tribes (not necessarily of warriors 

 who were slaughtered in fight, for people when they died, then 

 as much as now, would have to be deposited somewhere), as 

 well as a race amenable to Christian proprieties, who under- 

 stood a debased Latin tongue. Miss Eussell's well-directed 

 study has revealed to us a better reading of the inscription on 



