292 Statements concerning Sir Walter Scott 



done only a few weeks before his final breakdown. 

 Lockhart does say he believes there were portraits he had 

 not seen. 



Plate I. represents the house at Ashiesteel as seen from 

 the west. The centre is the oldest part ; the window on 

 the ground floor, on the east side of the door, is the 

 remaining window of the old dining-parlour, the two others 

 having been closed by the building of the east wing. The 

 window on the ground floor, in the west wing, is that of 

 the old drawing-room — now a bedroom — and the room over 

 that was Lady Scott's bedroom. The hill on the other side 

 of the river, along which the railway passes, is part of 

 Caddon Law; the higher one in the distance is Meigle, 

 near Galashiels, the name of which, when Mr Lowther was 

 in Scotland in 1629, was, or had been, the gathering-cry 

 of the district. The low hill of Caddonlee is seen between, 

 with some small remains of a large fort, ploughed up 

 during the old war. 



From a photograph hj Mr Maclagan, Galashiels. 



Plate II. shows the chair which was a present from 

 Sir Walter Scott to Miss Jane Russell, with the wheels, 

 which were put on for the purpose of having it photo- 

 graphed. They were so frail that the whole had to be held 

 steady by Mr Robert Reid, gardener at Ashiesteel. 



Photograph by Mr Maclagan. 



