^8 A Vl&iT TO-^TWEteDSIDE IN 1833 



[Here is inserted a sketch of a tablet or stone with the 

 following inscription.] 



1829 



Lat. N. 55° 40' 5" 



Long. W. G^ Oby 2" 27' 33" 



Castle base above '\ 



High Water Mark of ' ^42 

 feet. 



Sea at Berwick 



Observed by Sir T. Brisbone (sic.) 



14th April 1829. 



The well within the walls of Hume Castle was dry in 

 1826 when they cleaned it; nothing curious, however, was 

 found. It is now (1833) quite full. There are no less than 

 three wells near the castle. 



[Here is inserted a sketch of the] view of the school- 

 house from the top of the Castle-hill. 



The view from the walls of Hume Castle is at once the 

 finest and most extensive round Kelso. Looking south you 

 have on your right the Eildon hills, and, between them 

 and you, the beautiful vales of Tweed and Teviot including 

 Dryburgh, Old Melrose, and all the other dulcia arra 

 for which those rivers are so justly celebrated, far behind 

 again the mountains of Liddisdale grow blue in the distance, 

 and on a very clear day the eye can perceive the hills of 

 Cumberland. Pursuing the course of the Tweed, downwards 

 from Kelso, "Norham's castled steep, and Tweed's fair river, 

 broad and deep, and Cheviot's mountain lone," all pass before 

 the eye ; and the landscape is bounded by Berwick, the spire 

 of whose Town-hall is just perceived above the horizon. 

 Turning your body north, the Lammermuirs, Marchmont- 

 house, Dunse with its castle etc. 



