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Fig. 18. 



DEYBURGH ABBEY. Next to Melrose, Dryburgh is per- 

 haps the most famous of Scottish Abbeys ; and, like its even better 

 known rival, it owes its celebrity chiefly to its association with Sir 

 Walter Scott, whose ashes repose within its precincts. And, in 

 truth, no fitter resting-place could have been found for the great 

 Wizard, whose genius has thrown such a charm over his native 

 Border-land, and made it, almost literally, enchanted ground. 

 Apart from its history, his personal and ancestral connection with 

 it, and its situation — midway between Smailholm, the home of 

 his boyhood, and Abbotsford, the creation and abode of his 

 later years, and within sight and sound of his beloved Tweed — 

 there is much in the spot itself which marks it out as an appro- 

 priate place of repose for the " Master of Eomance." For 



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