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It has a castellated appearance as approached from below, and 

 commands a magnificent view to the N. and E. With the 

 exception of the thin Castle Stripe plantation on the west, all 

 woodland and enclosed fields were now left behind, while before 

 us stretched the steep sandy road which traverses the ' nick of 

 the Lammermoors.' The switchback character of the road served 

 to keep one ever expectant as to the view when the summit of 

 each incline was gained. Eobintipsy's plantation and Stoney- 

 path lay to the left, while to our right was an extent of open 

 marshy-looking ground lying towards Snawdon. When near 

 the summit of the last long pull we passed, close to the roadside 

 on the left, the huge circumvallations of the White Castle camp. 

 The remains of the Castle itself had disappeared more than 60 

 or 70 years ago. Below the camp is the Thorler Burn, which 

 rises in a reedy swamp near the source of the Whitadder- 

 Its passage through the deep and rugged glen at Nunraw over 

 rocks and linns is extremely romantic and picturesque. Beyond 

 the burn the broad side of Mid Hill confined the western 

 boundary of the old Dunbar Common. 



We were, after passing the White Castle camp, again in 

 Whittingehame parish, and, after gaining the crest of tlie 

 ascent, on a comparatively level road, dipping gradually to 

 the valley of the Whitadder. On the west side of Clints 

 Dod (1807 feet) the heterodox topographer would place the 

 source of the Whitadder within a few yards of the source of 

 the Thorler. From the road the watershed of the two streams 

 can be located exactly. However, we had to continue the 

 journey to where the first rivulet — Rangely Flow — crosses the 

 public road, where, 30 or 40 yards to the right among the heather, 

 the Duns party were found examining the White Well, the 

 orthodox birthplace of Berwickshire's famous angling stream. 

 No human habitation was in sight, and, indeed, the only sign 

 of civilisation was the near presence of the public road, and 

 the flocks on the surrounding fells. Eangely Kip lay away 

 to the west midway between the road we had traversed, and 

 its parallel neighbour from Longformacus to Danskin. South- 

 ward the view was circumscribed by the huge shoulders of 

 Spartleton and Kingside Hill, while Rock Law on the E. 

 hid from our view the small hill farms of Beltondod (locally 

 Benty Dod), Friardykes, and the Yad Lea (the grazing ground 

 on Dunbar Common for the mares — yads— and foals of the 



