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Appendix III. 

 ITINERARY by the late Mr James WoOD,Woodburn, Galashiels. 



The First Meeting of the Seasoji, i8g6, to be held at St. 

 Boswetts, for Dry burgh Abbey ^ Redpath, Cowdehknowes, and 

 Earlston. 



Leaving the Railway Hotel at Newtown, the first object to 

 be observed is the triple Eildons, the Trimontium of the 

 Romans, and Eildon Hall, the residence of the Earl of Dalkeith, 

 M.P. for Roxburghshire. 



Passing the "Major Baillie Memorial Hall," a little farther 

 down the burn is the site of the old and interesting Secession 

 Church of which Dr Waugh, one of the founders of the 

 London Missionary Society, was ordained minister in 1780. 

 This old building is now demolished, and its place taken by 

 a new U.P. Church at the top of the brae. 



A mile beyond this we reach St. Boswells, which takes its 

 name from St. Boisil, prior of Old Melrose, in the seventh 

 century. 



John Younger, shoemaker, philosopher, and poet, lived and 

 died in Lessudden, the former name of St. Boswells. Les- 

 sudden, along with many towns and towers on the Borders, 

 was burnt by the English in 1544. 



South of this is Lilliard's Edge, the site of the battle of 

 Ancrum Moor, where to avenge the death of her lover by the 

 English, "Maid Lilliard " rushed sword in hand into the heat 

 of the fight, her feats of valour being commemorated on the 

 memorial stone in the following words: — 



" Fair Maiden Lilliard lies under this stane, 

 Little was her stature, but great was her fame ; 

 Upon the English loons she laid many thumps. 

 And when her legs were catted off, she fought upon her stumps." 



The next stage of our journey is Dryburgh Abbey, where we 



" Will rnminate in sultry hours 

 In Drybnrgh's chaste and classic bowers." 



Just before reaching the Abbey, the Earl of Buchan's "Temple 

 of the Muses" may be seen, as well as "Stirling Tower," 

 bristling with cannon, and after "the holy ruined pile" has 

 been described by the President of the Club, the party may 



