By the Rev. W. C. Pkndcrlcath. 



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of the mountain having been laid bare and whitened by exposure, 

 presenting' probably at a distance the rude outline of the figure of 

 a horse. I imagine however, that it is more than doubtful whether 

 this resemblance is more than an accidental one. 



On the Hill of Mormond, in the district of Buchan, Aberdeen- 

 shire, there is also a figure of a White Horse, occupying the space 

 of nearly half-an-acre, which as I am informed by the Rev. P. 

 Mc. Laren, minister of the adjacent parish of Fraserburgh, was 

 formed by one of the Lairds of Strichen, in the early part of the 

 last century, to commemorate a favourite charger of his. Tradition 

 says that he cut it out with his own hands, and at last died of 

 chagrin at not being able to get one of the legs of the horse to look 

 sufficiently well from all sides. 



Mormond Hill is not far from Kinnaird's Head, and though little 

 more than 800 feet in height, yet from its conical shape, and the 

 flatness of the surrounding country, it forms a conspicuous landmark 

 when viewed from the sea. The basis of the hill is white quartz, 

 and it is with this that the outlines of the horse are filled up. 



On Roulston Hill, near Northwaite, in Yorkshire, is a White 

 Horse, measuring about 30 feet by 40 feet, and in very good pro- 

 portions. This was cut as recently as 1861, by a journeyman mason, 

 who had been working in the neighbourhood, as a memento of his 

 stay. \ 



But more interesting than these is the well-known Bed Horse, of 

 Warwickshire, of which (although it scarcely comes quite within 

 the proper limits of my subject, I will crave your permission to read 

 a short notice which I have found in Smith's History of Warwick- 

 shire. "In the extensive Lordship of Tysoe, and fronting the 

 church of that village, there is now to be seen, cut on the side of a 

 hill, the figure of a horse, which in consequence of the soil of the 

 hill being a red marl, is named the Bed Horse, and the lands which 

 lay immediately under this noted hill are called the Bed Horse Vale. 

 The representation of this horse is rather rudely designed, and in 

 size diminutive when compared with that fine-sized figure which has 

 always been and is still famed as the White Horse of Berkshire. 



This figure called the Red Horse is of the following dimensions, 



