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works, are at Milkington-Rings, and North-Shield-Rings, 
in the parifh of Eddlefton ; on Terrace-hill, in Newlands 
parilh ; on the rifing ground above Linton, and on the 
top of Lead-Law. Befides thefe, however, there are nu¬ 
merous others which our limits will not permit us to 
particularize. 
The Romans, who were unqueftionably the fird people 
that encroached upon the Britifli aborigines, have left 
few traces of their refidence here, and thofe few are con¬ 
fined to military polls or encampments. Of thefe the 
principal one is fituated on the eaftern fide of the Lyne, 
about ten miles to the eadward of the Watling-dreet, 
which traverfes the country within half a mile of the 
weltern extremity of the fhire. This entrenchment is 
called by the common people Randal’s Walls, from a 
tradition that Randolph, earl of Murray, had a houfe 
within its area. According to Armdrong it contains fix 
acres and two roods of ground, which has been frequent¬ 
ly ploughed, when many Roman coins have been turned 
up. Another Roman encampment is fituated on the 
northern fide of Upper Whitfield, in the parilh of Linton. 
It is in the form of a parallelogram, and is furrounded by 
a fingle fofle and rampart, which are now nearly oblite¬ 
rated. A third entrenchment, in the parilh of Manor, 
is alfo generally reprefented to be of Roman conftru&ion. 
Amongll the other antiquities of this county, the mod 
prominent are its terraces and caltles. RefpeCting the 
origin and ufes of the former, much difficulty prevails ; 
indeed ail that has been advanced concerning them is 
merely conjectural. The opinion of Chalmers, however, 
that they were intended for the accommodation of large 
bodies of fpeClators to witnefs fome fport, carries with 
it confiderable plaufibility ; and it likewifefeems probable 
that feveral of them were fubfequently appropriated for 
the adminiftration of judice. Of fuch works the molt 
confiderable are thofe fin a beautiful green mount, called 
Terrace-hill, above Newlands. Along the whoje face of 
this hill there are eleven or twelve terraces, from fifteen 
to twenty feet broad, which rife by a regular gradation 
to the top. About half a mile to the north is another 
eminence, called Moot-hill, which has likewife feveral 
tiers or terraces. Similar terraces are to be feen at Kir- 
kurd, at Skirling, and at Smithfield. 
The remains of the caffes and fortified towers of this 
county, are principally feated on the banks of the Tweed, 
and alternately on both fides of that river, and in fight of 
each other, as happens in Selkirkfliire and Berwicklhire. 
The object of this arrangement was the defence of the 
country from the incurfions of the border-chiefs. On 
the approach of an enemy, a fire was immediately lighted 
on the top of the neared caftle, and thus notice of the 
aggrefiion was fpread over a didriCt of at lead feventy 
miles in length in the courfe of a few hours. Thefe 
caftles were built of ftone and lime, ufually in a turreted 
form, and for the mod part occupied an eminence of 
difficult accefs. Thofe fituated within ten miles above 
and below Peebles were at lead twenty-fix in number, 
and much refembled each other,'except in the circum- 
dance of greater or lefs magnitude. At Traquair the 
Scottifh kings had a cadle in the twelfth century, where 
they occafionally refided for the purpofe of hunting in 
the fared. This cadle is now completely demolifhed, as 
well as that at Peebles, which is likewife faid to have 
been a royal refidence. On Woodhill are fome remains 
of an ancient building, which is called Macbeth’s Cadle; 
and in Broughton parifli is another, bearing the fame 
name, which is traditionally faid to have belonged to 
the celebrated Macbeth. The remains of Oliver-cadle, 
the feat of the Frafers, are feen in Tweedfmuir paridi; 
and on Fruid-water are the remains of Fruid-cadle, ano¬ 
ther baronial manfion, which alfo belonged to that 
powerful family. Drummelzier-cadle is fituated clofe to 
the river Tweed, and about a mile from it is Thanes-cadle, 
or Tinnis-cadle, formerly occupied as a fort of redoubt 
by theTweedies, the lords of Drummelzier. But thefe, 
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and indeed almod all the ancient cadles in this (hire, are 
completely ruinous, with the exception of that of Nied- 
path, in the vicinity of Peebles, which, being of vad 
drength, dill continues in tolerable prefervation, and 
confequently ad'ords an excellent fpecimen of fimilar 
building. This cadle dands on a rock, projecting over 
the north bank of the Tweed, which here runs through 
a deep narrow glen well wooded on both fides. Towards 
the land it commands an important pafs. The walls are 
eleven feet in thicknefs, and cemented with lime almod 
as hard as the drong whindone of which they are built. 
Niedpath was anciently the chief refidence of the Frafers 
above mentioned, and was mod probably the birth-place 
of the brave fir Simon Frafer, the lad of the family in the 
male line, who, in 1303, with only 16,000 men, repulfed 
and defeated the Englilh, 30,000 drong, in three fuccef- 
five battles, fought in one day on Roflyn-moor. In the 
reign of Charles I. it was garrifoned for the king, and 
held out againd Cromwell longer than anyplace in Scot¬ 
land fouth of the Forth. The fituation of this cadle is 
extremely beautiful and commanding. Pennycuick, who 
faj's it was of old called the “ Cadle of Peebles,” cele¬ 
brated it thus : 
The noble Nidpath, Peebles overlooks 
With its fair bridge and Tweed’s meand’ring brooks, 
Upon a rock it proud and dately dands, 
And to the fields about gives forth commands. 
PEE'CE, or Piece, f [ piega , Span, a room.] Any 
work of architecture or machinery. This ufage has been 
partly revived of late in the word time-piece. To what 
other parts of this extenfive definition it once applied, 
the following enumeration will fliow. Mafon. —A capital 
city: 
Yet is Cleopolis for earthly frame 
The faired peece that eye beholden can. Spenfer. 
A. fortified cadle : 
And evermore their wicked capitayn 
Provoked them the breaches to aflay, 
Sometimes with threats, fometimes with hope of gayn. 
Which by the ranfack of that peece they fliould attayn. 
Spenfer. 
A fliip : 
The wondred Argo, which in venturous peece 
Fird through the Euxine feas boreall the flow’r of Greece. 
Spenfer. 
A tower that ferved for a movable battery : 
Such hap befell that tower; for on that fide 
Gaind which the Pagans force and batt’ry bend 
Two wheels were broke, whereon the piece fliould ride ; 
The maimed engine could no further wend. Fairfax. 
A building.—He is an ill-defigned piece, built after the 
rudic order, and all his parts look too big for their 
height. Butler's Characters. 
Yet dill he bet and bound upon the dore. 
And thund’red flrokes thereon fo hideouflie. 
That all th a peece he fliaked from the flore, 
And filled all the houfe with fear and great uprore. Sp. 
PEED, aclj. Blind of one eye. Ray. See To Pee. 
PEE'ING-GHPE, a town of the Birman empire, fitu¬ 
ated on the Irawaddy, from which a great quantity of 
teak-timber is carried to Rangoon. 1 he forefls extend 
along on the wedern mountains; the trees aie felled in 
the dry feafon, and when the monfoon fets in are borne 
by the torrents to this town and Sahlahdam, a little above 
it. Peeing-ghie is about twenty miles north-wed of 
Mayadoun. 
PEEK’S HILL, a fmall pod-town of America, in Wed- 
Cheder county, New York, on the ead fide of Hudfon 
river, and north fide of the creek of its name, five miles 
from its mouth : fifty miles north of New York. 
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