A VISIT TO TWEEDSIDE IN 1833 67 



Andrew Ker of Kippilaw Writer to the Signet who dyed the first day 

 of October 1744. aged 85 years.* 



The dust of many generations of the Bostons of Gattonside is 

 deposited iu this place. We give oar bodies to the holy abbey to 

 keep. 



In the cloister of the Abbey 



4" BEATRIX SPONSA ANDREE | FRASCI f 



[Here is inserted a sketch of an] inscription in the front 

 of a house at Melrose near the market cross. 



Inscription in the front of a house at Melkobe near 

 THE Market Cross. 



I was up at six o'clock on Saturday morning, examined 

 the abbey till half past nine, got breakfast, and then I ran 

 up the most eastern Eildon hill and had a most splendid 

 view. We set off from Melrose about half past 12, and 

 retraced the Kelso road till we came to the lane that leads 

 down to the Iron Bridge ; we turned down it and crossed 

 the Tweed (the carriage at the ford, and Mother and I at 

 the chain Bridge. Mother on her road met a pack of 

 hounds!!). On the opposite bank there is a small temple 

 erected, and in it a cast statue of the Apollo Belvedere| with 

 the Muses round the base. We then drove to the abbey 

 which is about ^ a mile from the bridge. Lady Erskine 

 was shewing a party of her friends the ruins during the 

 time we were there. 



* Here lyes lieutenant coUnel Andrew Ker of Kippelaw who was born 

 at Melros the 23 febbuary 1620 years and died at Kippelaw upon the 

 3 febbuary 1697 in the seventy seventh year of his age. Cf. Koger's 

 Monumental Inscriptions in Scotland. E,r inf. Mr Richard Welford. 



t In Roger's Monumental Inscriptions this is given as ' Beatrix 

 spouse Rob. P'raser.' Probably the last word is Fraser, for that name 

 is on the adjacent tombstone. — J.C.H. 



X This statue has been removed. — J.C.H. 



