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Mr Evans then mentions that he has obtained 
information of the occurrence of adders at the follow- 
ing places: Harperrig, Middlerig, Harburnhead farm, 
and “one was killed on the road near Crosswoodhill 
toll five or six years ago.” 
“In the Bathgate district I have reason to believe 
adders were at one time not uncommon, but I have 
not heard of any recent occurrence there. 
“On the south side of the Pentlands we know that 
the adder inhabited Harlaw Muir in the beginning of 
the present century. On the adjoining extensive 
moor of Auchencorth I have been told it still exists. 
A few miles nearer West Linton it has been noted 
by Mr T. G. Laidlaw, but very rarely, the only 
example he has actually seen being a dead one lying 
on the road near Coalyburn, about twenty years 
ago, 
“Tn Peeblesshire the viper or adder—we are told 
was then 
in Chambers’s History of that county 
(1864) common. 
“One about 24 inches long was killed in Minch- 
moor in 1892, and a large example in the schoolhouse 
garden at Tweedsmuir in 1892. In the parish of 
Temple, in the southern portion of Mid-Lothian, 
and towards the foot of the Moorfoot Hills, it 
would appear still to linger in one or two suitable 
spots... . 
“Throughout the greater part of the Lammermoors 
adders are still fairly common. They were unusually 
