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Harehead, on which a wide extent of cultivated ground has, in 

 recent years, been reclaimed from the moors, as well as resus- 

 citated from the neglected condition into which some arable land 

 had relapsed, before judicious draining was practised. Its 

 highest hill is 1032 feet. I am told that chipped flints are not 

 unfrequently turned up on Harehead ; but I have never found 

 any one to collect them. Bothal also shows modern progress ; 

 but the highest portion of Bothal Hill still wears its purple 

 vesture, and is better as it is. This joins on to the high heathery 

 hill called Hainshieside or Hainshawside, once an old holding 

 of the Bertrams, during their farming experience. April 10, 

 1549, Patrick Hepburn of Wauchton, held the lands of Eister 

 Grammelscheilles called Hanchysyde Rig, barony of Hailes. 

 (Retours, Haddington), Nov. 7, 1580. James Heriott of Trabroun 

 had the lands of Henshawsyde, barony of Hailes. {Ibid.) To 

 plough hainshyside is to plough across a slope, when the plough 

 is kept in the soil " against the hand." A " hainshyside brae " 

 is often spoken of in Berwickshire. From a lower position than 

 the castle, the brown summit of Spartleton shows itself through 

 a gap winding out and in as it follows the Whitadder's course. 

 A view of Orichness comes in above Bothal. A branch of the 

 Bothal rivulet divaricates, and a "rig" and a flat intervene 

 between this branch and an extended sloping plateau ; Orichness 

 stands on this flattened space. Beyond it rises a crag — Orichness 

 Oraigs. A very deep ravine is said to occur there — possibly what 

 is here called a " Crib." When Alexander Bertram was farmer 

 of Orichness, he sold to the Dalrymples of Bass and North 

 Berwick, a lot of Black-faced Wedders, one of which jumped 

 over the rock, swam ashore, and came back to Orichness. 



I do not propose to describe the Castle. This can be done to 

 better purpose, when Mr Robert Murray's drawing of it can be 

 engraved. There is a figure of it, with the history of many of 

 its manorial proprietors, in Mr Campbell Swinton's valuable 

 work on the Swinton family. The earliest notice of it is of date 

 1552. The outside of the walls and turrets are much encrusted 

 with yellow {Parmelia parietina), and grey (P. saxatilis) lichens. 



The successive proprietors of Cranshaws are reckoned to be 

 1st in 1401, the Douglases : 2, the Swintons : 3, the Denholms : 

 4, the Watsons of Saughtree, whose heiress married and carried 

 the estate to the Earl of Morton. But there were earlier holders. 

 In the reign of Alexander II., William de Crennescawe was a 

 witness to a Melrose Charter. (Liber de Melros, p. 215). 



