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tufts of smiling primroses were discernible in the distance. 

 Here the view opposite was gained of Mervinslaw, the old Hern- 

 wingeslaw or Xernwingeslaw of the Jedburgh Abbey charters, 

 and the great brown moor of Belling behind and around it. 

 Overton or Everton Hill on the right as we ascended was pointed 

 out, on whose summit we are told there is an old graveyard. 

 Reaching the table land on the height, we saw where in a field, 

 the old castle of Dolphinston once stood, the site being indicated 

 by a group of trees. Here a magnificent view spread on all 

 sides. Carter Fell, a great landmark hereabouts, stood near at 

 hand disclosed to its base ; and Peel Fell, a bulky dark mass, 

 enveloped in dusky fogs, afar off formed a fitting termination to 

 the Cheviots. In the circuit to the west and north were Rubers- 

 law, the Dunioii, the Eildons, Stichel, Hume Castle, the Lammer- 

 moors, Dirrington and Cockburn Laws ; the horizon line being 

 without a gap in it of bounding mountain ridges, more uniform 

 perhaps than picturesque. To gain a nearer view of the 

 adjacent B order hills the party drove up to Falla, and walked 

 to a prominent, but not very elevated peak, called the Kip. It 

 is crowned by a sepulchral cairn, broken into, but not so far as 

 to reveal the chamber of the dead within. The cairn is visible, 

 as perhaps its inmate when alive directed, or as the respect of 

 the tribe whom he ruled prompted it should be, from every little 

 vantage ground in the neighbourhood. Here we looked across 

 to the twin Browndean-laws, Easter and Wester, called respec- 

 tively of old "Eddelesheid and Elfingshop," two heavy green 

 eminences, whose peculiar configuration attracts the observer to 

 them from numerous points of outlook along the Border-line. 

 The farm steading is towards the N.E. end of the hills. They 

 are porphyritic, and veins of jasper are said to be frequent among 

 them. Co-terminous with this farm lie Plenderleith and Ric- 

 calton surrounded by a green and cultivated flattish space ; 

 distinguishably green beside the still withered benty covering of 

 the pastoral hills. The lengthened Cheviot range, the rolling 

 Kidland hills, and the swampy elevations that crown the head 

 waters of the Coquet, the Reed, the Kale, the Oxnam, and the 

 Jed stood before us. The depression in the Coquet valley, at 

 the back of Thirlmoor, was distinct to below Makendon ; Cushat 

 Law and Milkhope hills towering up in the remote east. 

 Especially was the company animated by the proximity to the 

 battle ground of the Raid of the Reid-swire immediately in front, 



