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There is also a square mound of earth, three feet high in a syke 

 on Hurdlaw moor, and traces of an ancient road on the hill east 

 of Evelaw, both of which as well as the camp, require investiga- 

 tion. Here a fresh conveyance with members from the Lauder 

 district met the company. At Cammerlaws cultivation was again 

 reached, with healthful although late crops of oats, and promis- 

 ing turnips. The many hillocks on this place have the appear- 

 ance of Kaims, and may have led to its peculiar name. Fine 

 prospects of the Roxburghshire and Border Hills, Dunion, 

 Ruberslaw, Penielhaugh, the Eildons, the Cowdenknowes, and 

 the more remote ranges of the Cheviots, the Selkirkshire heights, 

 and the hills above Innerleithen, were obtained ; and the low 

 country all round was well dotted with trees and plantations, and 

 the enclosures of modern culture, which gave a warmer effect tp 

 the scene, but still it wore an air of wildness from its proximity 

 to the moors, and the weather-beaten aspect of some of the trees. 

 There was little to be seen at Westruther, only the place is well 

 sheltered, and trees appear to thrive. The old oblong church 

 within the churchyard was built in 1649 — "a very plain building 

 even then, covered with heather without and unceiled within." 

 It was repaired and contracted in dimensions in 1752. There is 

 a Norman door probably brought from some older chapel now 

 included in the parish. When it was abandoned for a new 

 church, an attempt had been made to bury it up in an ivy shroud. 

 The churchyard had very recently yielded a heavy crop of grass, 

 then cut and removed. 



But the main object of the visit was Wedderlie House, which 

 belongs to Lord Blantyre, a quaint old residence, still retaining 

 the style of the age, or rather ages in which it was built. It is 

 well surrounded with trees, and has a fine outlook towards Rox- 

 burghshire in the direction of Penielheugh. It is a building 

 formed out of an old peel tower of the 14th century, united to a 

 newer and more capacious mansion of the date 1680. It looks 

 as if a branch of the Edgars after a period of straitened 

 means, had become enriched by commerce, through one of its 

 representatives, who supplied better accommodation to his family 

 accustomed to such comforts as Edinburgh then afforded. From 

 the number of bed-rooms there had evidently been a large estab- 

 lishment. After viewing the exterior, a paper descriptive of its 

 architectural features, by Mr Robert Murray, Architect, Edin- 

 burgh, was read, and his plans and drawings of the house were 



