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Eetracing their steps by this cleverly engineered pathway 

 the members soon reached the site of the modern Mansion, 

 beautifully situated on an overhanging cliff overrun with 

 planted St. John's Wort and Periwinkle. In front of the 

 staircase leading from the main floor a fine flower-garden 

 has been designed, to the South of which rises the Camp- 

 hill, clad with Ehododendrons and hardy shrubs, whence 

 in the clear air of the Autumn noon an extensive view of 

 the Bass Rock and the Dunbar coast-line was greatly 

 enjoyed. On this grassy eminence, which has been supposed 

 by some to have been the original site of Dunglass, there 

 has been erected a substantial summer-house of stone, on 

 which is graven the crest of the Halls and the date 1718, 

 beneath which runs the legend: — " Cura quietem." So 

 suggestive of rest and reflection was this hill-top, that the 

 party gladly prolonged their stay, rejoicing in the glorious 

 sunshine and the wide prospect of shore and sea, which the 

 keen air rendered conspicuously crisp and charming; but at 

 the call of their leader, ever anxious to maintain punctuality, 

 they descended in due course to the garden to the West of 

 the Mansion, and viewed the well-stocked borders, noting in 

 particular the fine display of Nemesia and Phlox Drummondii. 

 Among trees that attracted attention were a splendid example 

 of the Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) on the West side of 

 the Dean and within sight of the Mansion (girth 13 feet 5 

 inches at 5 feet from the ground) ; a handsome Chili Pine 

 (Araucaria imbricata) on the West of the main approach, which 

 was presented by William Hay, Esquire, of Duns Castle in 1842, 

 and has attained an approximate height of 52 feet (girth 5 feet 

 8 inches at 5 feet from the ground) ; a commercially famous 

 Sycamore (Acer pseudo-platanus) on the East of the carriage- 

 drive, which bears the title of the "Tron Tree," a lower 

 limb having been used in the days of the public fair, held 

 in the village of Dunglass, for the purpose of weighing the 

 goods brought thither for sale, (girth 10 feet 10 inches 

 at 5 feet from the ground); and a graceful Silver Fir 

 (Abies pectinata) on the East of the church of Dunglass, 

 among whose branches Traveller's Joy (Clematis vitalba) 

 was revelling to a height of thirty feet. In front of the 

 Mansion-house stood a remarkable clump of English Yews 



