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when on a visit in 1787 to Elizabeth, Mrs Scott, niece of Mrs 

 Cockburn, whose lays had fired his muse, or as she was long 

 familiarly and affectionately termed by the tenantry and others 

 in the locality — the Leddy o' Wauchope. Long may this relic 

 be allowed to stand as a memorial of the time when the Borders 

 were honoured by the " God-made King " of Scotsmen. After 

 a walk of about a quarter-of-a-mile, the fort was reached. This 

 is a strongly fortified Camp of the British type, about 813 paces 

 in circumference, and 300 in diameter, surrounded by a ditch 

 from 30 to 40 feet wide. Within the memory of persons living 

 within the last decade, it was surrounded by a wall of some 

 height, and filled with stones in the centre, but every dyke 

 within sight had been quarried out of it, before any interest 

 was evinced in it, and then when it was just too late, the late 

 proprietor planted it with trees to save it from total obliteration. 

 The entrance to the fort had been from the east, and standing 

 upon the spot, it was pointed out what an eye for the beautiful 

 these old Camp makers had ; for a wide expanse of country, like 

 that which was now looked upon, including the Eildons, the 

 Lammermuirs, and Lilliard's Edge, must have been soul- 

 inspiring, whether covered with heath or wood, or as at present, 

 with a variegated mantle of verdure. Next, the terraced marks 

 of ancient cultivation along the face of the Rig, fronting the 

 river, were reached. These are well marked and numerous ; but 

 the difficulty here, as in the case of all such remains, is to assign 

 them to any definite period, p re-historic or historical, for the 

 fact is, while such terraces undoubtedly reach back to pre- 

 historic times, terrace cultivation may be found to-day almost 

 identical all over the continents of Europe and Asia, and notably 

 within our own dominions in the Channel Islands, where in the 

 island of Jersey, even the flying tourist may see them without 

 trouble ; for the hill behind St. Allbins is so terraced from base 

 to summit, for the purpose of taking as much produce as 

 possible from unlikely places where the soil is fertile. 



After completing this interesting tour of the Camps, etc., the 

 party, on the invitation of Captain MacMillan Scott, adjourned 

 to Wauchope House for luncheon. Before rising from the 

 table, the health of Dr Hardy, the honoured Secretary of the 

 Club, was proposed by Captain Tancred of Weens, in glowing 

 terms. It being his birthday, it was rendered all more 

 enthusiastically. His great services to the Club in an all-round 



