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Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who had sought refuge with 

 him, to the Eegent of Scotland, and gave origin to the proverb : 

 " A man who betrays his friend or benefactor is fit for Hector's 

 Cloak." The ruins of the foundations of Hector's Peel are near 

 Penton Linns The locality of Harelaw and its false-hearted 

 owner has by Mackenzie (Northumberland, I., p. 375, note,) and 

 modern Guide-books, been misapplied to Harelaw near Paston ia 

 the parish of Kirknewton. 



Leaving the inn we drove northwards passing Penton Farm 

 and Penton House on the left, and Penton Corn Mill and Penton 

 Railway Station on the right. Crossing the railway by a high 

 stone bridge, Mr Bowie called attention to a great "mineral 

 fault " in the railway cutting— a short distance west from the 

 bridge — by which the strata are depressed on both sides from an 

 anticlinal axis. We then descended the steep slope to Penton 

 Bridge which spans the river Liddel and is the boundary between 

 Cumberland and Dumfriesshire. 



"From Penton to the Mote," says Mr H. Kerr, "the scenery 

 on both banks of the Liddel is most beautiful and the reaches of 

 the stream are seen glittering here and there amid the trees. 

 Penton Linns, which lie below the bridge, is a plnce of great 

 natural beauty, and is much visited by excursionists from Carlisle 

 and elsewhere. The river here rushes through deep gorges cut 

 in the sandstones and limestones, and the cliffs are overhung 

 with finely foliaged trees, while the splintered and carved rocks 

 are covered with ivy, ferns and a profusion of flowers." 



With Mr Bowie again to guide us, we leave the carriage at 

 the north end of the bridge, and walk down the Scotch side of 

 the river, both sides being wooded, to "the Head of the Liuns, 

 which take this name from the great ' mineral fault ' seen in the 

 railway cutting. This ' fault ' forms a great curve in the strata, 

 or an anticlinal ridge. Its course is nearly due N. and S., and 

 throws down nearly vertical or on edge to the west, many hundred 

 feet — the carboniferous thick Limestone with the overlying 

 ' Millstone Grit ' strata. The latter strata have been denuded, 

 but the limestone has withstood denudation. Continuing our 

 walk through the Linns, with the vertical 4 Millstone Grit ' strata 

 towering above our heads, we arrived at the narrow discharge or 

 outlet of the river at the Foot of the Linns, and observed the 

 junction of the New Red Sandstone with the Millstone Grit 

 strata." 



