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together without quarrelling ; but they have certainly never been 

 garden terraces, and from the analogies of other cases, may not 

 unlikely be part of a much older fort. 



" Nearing Innerleithen, the steep-hill to the left or south is the 

 Caddon Bank, on which is one of the oldest plantations in Scot- 

 land. There is no doubt that it is such, but it is impossible to 

 say how far it may have been re-planted. The rocky hill on the 

 north side is the Pirn Craig, and the house of the Pirn is passed 

 rather to the west of it. The rocky valley of the Leithen opens 

 actually into the town ; there is a fort on the small planted hill 

 behind the Pirn house, and another on the west side, on a 

 shoulder of the peaked hill called the Lee Pen, still called the 

 Curly Bank, and latterly spelt Caerlee." 



The Lee Pen derives its name from the old castle of Lee situate 

 at the base of the hill. Lee once belonged to Newbattle Abbey. 



It is impossible to particularise all the points of interest brought 

 suddenly into view on landing at Innerleithen. I shall content 

 myself with noticing Grieston among the elevated ground of Tra- 

 quair parish, where the position of an abandoned lead mine, 

 where it perforates a sloping ridge, can be perceived from Inner- 

 leithen. Mr Mathison supplies some remarks on the localities 

 for lead in the vicinity. " Lead is found on the farm of Gries- 

 ton, in the parish of Traquair. There are here three old mines, 

 in aU of which I have been, but they are now filled at the en- 

 trance. The ore in this locality used to be found in the burn 

 where I often have gathered it ; but owing to the burn being 

 walled in and covered over it is not now accessible. A second 

 locality is upon the farm of West Bold close by the burn. 

 The ore in this neighbourhood does not appear to be so rich. 

 It is mixed with zinc blende. [Chalmers in his Caledonia, 

 ii. p. 901., notices a feeble attempt, made in 1775, to sink a lead 

 mine above the village of Bold]. It has also been found in In- 

 nerleithen churchyard, a fact which the following quotation sub- 

 stantiates : ' Some years ago the grave-digger frequently came 

 upon the lead ore and portions of the smelting furnaces.' A por- 

 phyry dyke, being the continuation of the same band as at 

 Grieston, crosses the valley near the churchyard." I was also 

 informed that lead had been observed at Walkerburn. Accord- 

 ing to Sir Eoderick Murchison, "in the Grieston slates, on the north 

 bank of the anticlinal plunge to the north, and then for the first 



