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planted by the proprietor. The stone has an inscription round the edges 

 in the old Saxon character, but, being overgrown with moss [lichens], it 

 cannot be deciphered. It is said that the borderer's wife would have met 

 a similar fate, had she not, warned by a domestic, fled to a dark cave at 

 the foot of the waterfall in the ravine above the tower, where she lay con- 

 cealed till the danger was over. The waterfall is peculiarly picturesque- 

 It is about twenty feet high, though it cannot be seen till the visitor is 

 close upon it." 



Sir Walter Scott, in his Introduction to the poem of the 

 " Border Widow," joins other pathetic touches. 



"A mountain torrent, called Henderland Burn, rushes impetuously from 

 the hills, through a rocky chasm, named the Dowglen, and passes near the 

 site of the tower. To the recesses of this glen, the wife of Cockburn i^ 

 said to have retreated, during the execution of her husband ; and a place 

 called the Lady's Seat, is still shown, where she is said to have striven to 

 drown, amid the roar of the foaming cataract, the tumultuous noise which 

 announced the close of his existence." 



The "Dow-linn" and not the "Dow-glen" is the correct 

 name of the waterfall. (Scottish Journal, i, p. 248). "J. P.,'' 

 a correspondent of the " Peebleshire Monthly Advertiser," whose 

 communication is transferred to the "Scottish Journal" (l-c.) 

 furnishes some additional and apparently correct statements 

 about the tomb and its recent history. 



" The tomb, which is about five feet long, stands on a inoat, or small 

 conical hill, flat on the top, still called the Chapel-knowe, and is in the 

 centre of what was called the chapel of the castle of Henderland, and pro- 

 bably the ' Kirk of Enderland,' mentioned in the Eecords of the Presbytery 

 of Peebles, l7th June, 1603, as then ' altogedder doun and equall wt ye erd' 

 (ground) . 



Sir Walter Scott says : ' In a deserted burial-place which once surrounded 

 the chapel of the castle, the monument of Cockburn and his lady is still 

 shown. It is a large stone broken in three parts ; but some armorial bear- 

 ings may yet be traced.' When Sir Walter wrote this note, the broken stone 

 had been removed from its original resting place into the adjoining burying 

 ground- 

 in 1841, Mr Murray of Henderland ordered the tomb to be repaired, the 

 Chapel-knowe to be planted, and these interesting relics to be protected by 

 a stone wall round the foot of the moat, in which steps were formed for 

 the convenience of strangers visiting 



* Lone St Mary's silent lake,' 

 and its delightful neighbourhood. 



Before the repairs of the tomb were commenced, an individual who had 

 been somewhat sceptical as to whether the stone had really been placed 

 over the laird's grave, dug about two feet down, and to his surprise turned 

 up a portion of a human skull. It was in the dusk of the evening, and 



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