IN MEMORIAM.— DR HARDY 343 



When he was two years old his parents removed 

 from Bilsdean to the farm of Penmanshiel, in Cockburns- 

 path parish, where the family remained for many years. 

 The whole neighbourhood around Dunglass, Penmanshiel, 

 and Cockburnspath is singularly rich, both in natural 

 beauty and in legendary and historical interest. The 

 range of the Lammermoors, which divides the Merse 

 from Lothian, embraces it in a wide sweep, before 

 plunging down, at its southern extremity, upon the 

 North Sea, in the tremendous precipices of St. Abb's 

 Head and the Wolfs Crag. Deep wooded ravines or 

 " deans " of surpassing loveliness — one of thern the famed 

 " Pease " or " Peths," where the march of southern in- 

 vasion was often arrested — intersect the rich corn lands 

 lying between the bases of the hills and the sea — 

 the haunts of many a rare bird and plant, and 

 crowned on their steep sides with the ruins, here of a 

 dismantled castle, there of an abandoned chapel. The 

 coast line itself is of singular boldness and grandeur : 

 and, apart from its merely scenic attractions, has been 

 rendered classic in the history of geological science 

 by the investigations of Hutton and Sir James Hall. 

 It was amid such surroundings that James Hardy first 

 drew breath and spent his early years. 



He received the rudiments of his education at the 

 village school of Old Cambus, about a mile from his 

 father's farm. Little is known of his school days, but 

 it has been ascertained that even at that early period 

 some indications were given of those mental characteristics 

 by which he was distinguished in after life. One of 

 his school-fellows was John Cairns, afterwards the well- 

 known minister of Berwick, and Piincipal of the United 

 Presbyterian College ; and the acquaintance formed in 

 boyhood, ripened into a close friendship with him and 

 his respected brothers which continued through life. 

 From Old Cambus School he seems to have gone to 



