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Survey Map, and is entered on through 7 breaks in the lines 

 of defence, the leading 2 being at the East and West ends of 

 this great Southern plateau. The latter is the more accessible, 

 "being only 100 feet above the broad and nearly Ifevel neck 

 which connects the summit on which the fort stands with the 

 higher Eildon, and is approached from the neck by a gentle 

 slope. The Eastern entrance is close under the summit-scree, 

 and its defences on the North side are now represented by 

 three short, low, broad, stony mounds, which run from it to 

 the foot of the scree, and on the South by a scarp about 

 25 feet high, with a sharp crested mound at its foot, which 

 is prolonged in front of the entrance, apparently to include 

 a feeble spring there. Another stronger spring, covered and 

 padlocked, is near this on the North side of the entrance, 

 and the two outer mounds on that side bend inwards, so as 

 to flank and exclude it from the lines : but this may bo due 

 to modern changes, when tlie spring was utilised. As this 

 entrance is on a slope, the three mounds rise one above the 

 other, those in the rear commanding those in front." The 

 space enclosed may be divided into two portions, the former 

 consisting of slopes and plateaux lying between the lines of 

 the citadel, and the latter containing the citadel itself, which 

 is stationed on a rectangular ridge, measuring about 800 by 

 400 feet, which comes in contact with the outer lines at their 

 greatest elevation. Signs are not wanting also of dwellings 

 within the enclosure, in many circular or horse-shoe shaped 

 excavations, which must have consisted, not of stone, but of 

 some perishable substance, as no stony debris is anywhere 

 to be seen. 



After according a hearty vote of thanks to Mr Goodchild 

 for his instructive address, the party separated for the after- 

 noon, a section to range the hill and the adjoining woods of 

 Eildon Hall, permission to do so having been kindly granted 

 by His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, and another to revisit 

 the burying-place of the great poet of the Borders. The 

 route of the latter lay by Newtown St. Boswell's, and across 



the suspension bi-idge which spans the Tweed 

 Dryburgh. at one of its many romantic windings. On its 



Northern side stands a temple to the Muses, 

 erected by the eleventh Earl of Buchan, on which is erected 



