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Castle (where Mary was coufined under the care of her father). 

 Cecil married Charles Kerr, 3rd son of William, Earl of Lothian, and 

 their daughter married John Scott of Gorinberry, and their daughter 

 married Walter Scott, 2nd son of Walter, Earl Tarras, who succeeded 

 his nephew as Laird of Harden, and was grandfather to the present 

 Hugh Scott of Harden, 1796. 



"The picture was given to her great-granddaughter, Miss Jane 

 Scott of Harden, by her father." 



(2) " Walter Scott, Earl of Tarras, married Mary Scott, Countess of 

 Buccleuch, and after her death Helen Hepburne of Huinby, from 

 whom the present family of Scotts of Harden is descended." 



(3) " Mary Scott, Countess of Buccleuch, married Walter Scott, Earl 



Tarras, and died without children." 



(4) " SirWilliam Scott of Harden, kt., who built Mertoun House ; his son 

 dying before him, the succession went by entail to the present pro- 

 prietor, the families having been separated above fifty years. 



" He built this House (i.e. Mertoun) in 1702." 

 With Leyden's tribute to Harden we shall take our leave of 

 the venerable place, which we were so leisurely privileged to view 

 as the climax of the Club's field-work for the day. 



" Where Bortha hoarse, that loads the meads with sand, 

 Rolls her red tide to Teviot's western strand 

 Through slaty hills, whose sides are shagged with thorn, 

 Where springs, in scattered tufts, the dark-green corn, 

 Towers wood-girt Harden far above the vale. 



A hardy race, who never shrunk from war, 

 The Scott, to rival realms a mighty bar, 

 Here fixed his mountain home ; — a wide domain, 

 And rich in soil, had purple heath been grain ; 

 But, what the niggard ground of wealth denied, 

 From fields more blessed his fearless arm supplied." 

 After a pleasant drive down the Borthwick and the Teviot, the 

 company before reaching Hawick passed through the beautiful 

 grounds of Teviot Lodge, for which permission had been obtained 

 on the previous evening by Mr David Watson, (to whom I am 

 also much obliged for several items of information about the 

 places visited) whom I accompanied as the representative of the 

 Club. Mr Waugh supplies this notice of a few of the rarer plants 

 that occur within the compass of the day's route. " Among others 

 we have in Pipewell-heugh woods, Vicia sylvatica, Crepis paludosa 

 and Adoxa Moschatellina ; in Goldielands woods, Geranium sylvaticum 

 and a pencilled variety of it. Above Branxholme is Arum macul- 

 atum. In Wilton Lodge grounds grows Polygonatum multiflorum ; 

 which has probably been planted." Mr Watson and I saw Chry- 



