and the banks are about to be covered with wood. An enriched obelisk has been raised on the higheft part of the lawn, betwixt and Mary's Bower, and a ruftic hut near it, on a bold point on the brink of the glen. The inclosures and pleafure grounds, towards the road and hills in front, and the plantations have been much extended, both down to the lake and up towards the village, near which, on an eminence at the foot of the hills, a romantic and arcadian fcite has been cholen, for a monument, to their favourite pastoral Bard. The pigeon-houtes, chapel yard, offices, and railed in court, are gone, the Rail now furrounding the houfe of Parfon's Green, formerly Parfon's Knows, that gave title to one Logan a juryman, on the trial of Archibald Douglas parson of Giafgow, for the murder of King Henry, (fee Arnot's Trials). A iquare of offices are fubftituted for the old ones, and pla❤ ced at the head of a new garden, above the other old one beyond the eastern recefs. A large addition to the house, behind, with butreffes and pinnacles, and pointed windows, in the Gothic Chapel tafte, from a defign of the proprietor's own, is juft compleating. It looks over the bottom of the eaftern ravine, and the flat part of the Steel, through the opening between the wooded point below the garden and the other fide of the glen alfo covered with trees, to the higher bank of the river beyond, raised and darkened with pines that croffes it, and draws a fkreen between and the lake. The body of the house and wings remain, though much altered within, and the old finishing is ftill left entire, in what is called the Advocate's Room, the spaces that had been formerly covered with tapestry, being filled up with wooden pannels, fimilar to those on the other fides. On the ceiling of the ftair-cafe is a vacant space, which was once occupied by a painting of Gauymede and the Eagle, and two stone Bufts of Pan and his wife fcolding, well executed, are remov,

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ed from fomewhere about the house, to the foot of the garden, Befides fome copies in the rooms, are a landscape and thunder storm, with cattle and figures, by Tempefta, a view through a rock by Marterelli, a Moon Light by Vanderneer, a Piper by Teniers, St Francis in extacy by A. Carracci, a Mendicant by Spagniolet, &c. together with a Sea-piece of fome merit, which is the only old ornament left in one of the walls above the fire place. At Monk's Haugh a fulling mill and dyehoufe, and below Harbour Craig a lint mill has been built. On the other fide of the garden is a large field, called the Greenbrae-park, oppofite to the Steel and Harleymuir, which defcends to the river, fronting the south, and that has been about 50 years in grafs. In confequence of a competition with two gentlemen in the lowest parts of Eaft and Mid-Lothian as to the quality of their paftures, a Wedder of two years old, that had been bred on the Harleymuir, of the Linton black faced kind, was fed other two years in that field, getting the common run of the flock; and being killed in December 1787, one of the quarters, with the kidney, was produced, with thofe of the other two gentlemen's, at the French Tavern, Edinburgh; and was adjudged by a Club to which the parties belonged, as alfo by Mr Bayle, the landlord, to be the best of the three. The quarter, before roast, ing, with the kidney, was 24 lb. Dutch weight, and there was aftone, trone weight, of tallow, including all that was to be found in the infide of the whole Wedder. On the fouth fide of the two rocks of Carlops, a fmall valley, called the Carlop's Dean, croffes the glen behind, in which the village ftands. Oppofite to the pass formed by the rocks, it is open and wide, and the fouth bank low and flat, with a hollow in it, called Charles's Nick. It is narrower, and the fides higher and steeper to the weft, with the Carlop's Burn running through it, and to the east it gradually deepens, till it be

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comes the fecond parallel glen behind the house. The Car lop's Glen connects it with the Esk at the village, making a pafs between the two, and the glen, defcending from the Harbour Craig, receives the ftream at its loweft extremity, and unites them betwixt the houfe and the Steel. Weft from the rocks, the Dean runs along the foot of the Carlop's Hill its whole length, and affumes a pastoral and fingular appearance. From the flat at the bottom rife three little green hills, at equal distances from each other, and alfo at equal diftances from the two fides of the Dean, called the Holehaugh Know, Dun Kaim, and the Picket Craig. The first and last are almost perfect cones, covered with dry green turf, and of the fame fize, with this only difference, that the laft is harper than the other, with a rocky fummit full of little caverns. Dun Kaim is triple the fize of the end ones, is of a long oval fhape, likewife covered with dry smooth turf, and in the middle is quite flat on the top. It, and the Holehaugh Know, are feen from the public road. All the high banks and scenery around, is of the fame uniform verdure; and all the tranfitions, except the fummit of the Picket Craig, and the fharp point of the Know, are gradual and undulating. On the middle top of Dun Kaim it is propofed to erect the monument to Ramfay. From the bank below the Carlop's Hill, between the Know and Dun Kaim, descends, in a high cascade, a small rivulet called the Lin Burn, that after running over ftrata of iron, and red and white limestone, immediately joins the Carlop's Burn, on the other fide of the Dean. On the top of the fame bank, oppofite to Dun Kaim, ⚫and in a parallel direction, and at equal distances, are feven natural pits or excavations of different depths; and betwixt thefe and the Dean, the bank is compofed of another ftratum of lime ftone, of a clouded mixture of greyish green, white, and pink colours. Farther on, and a little beyond the

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Picket Craig, is a cavern, from whence iffues a clear rill, which was made by a fearch for lead that was attended with fome fuccefs, an old smith having feen fome filver that had been extracted from it, but which was afterwards dropt. The little caves, on the steep fummit of the Picket Craig, are fo deep, that a hare being pufhed by the greyhounds, in courf ing, a few years ago. and having taken to one of them, was got out, with the affiftance of a terrier, with the greatest difficulty. Over all thefe, fronting the fouth, rifes with an arch, the Carlop's Hill; the fame bank. however, continues behind one of the rocks, which is a projection from it to the Efk, and the inclined plain above it at the bottom of the hill, directly over the village, is called the Lead Flats. Out of the small diftrict of country between this bank called Lead Flats, and a fmooth round hill betwixt and Linton, called Leadlaw Hill, all the filver is faid to have been got, from the lead found there, with which Mary of Guife. Queen Mary's mother, paid her troops, during the turbulence of her Regency. At the foot of the Dean, eastward, before it contracts and deepens into a glen, is a fubterranean spring, called the Rumbling Well, which appears near half a mile fouth, on the other fide of a lime quarry, where, in confequence of a difpute between two of the workmen, about 12 years ago, a glove being put into it, was carried all the way through, and came out at the place first mentioned. The ftream belonging to the third glen, that meets the last one at the Harbour Craig, in confequence of the workings of the coal, although a much greater body of water, likewife difappears, about a quarter of a mile above that rock, and fuddenly burfts out with a fall, almost in front of one of its fides. The lime-rock at the Rumbling Well is of a dark grey colour, almost black, with a great of whire fhells, refembling fkrew nails, of different

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that one of the chimney pieces in the house made from it, has a polish equal to any foreign marble. Between the third parallel glen and the last one, is a very extenfive field of coal now working behind that rock, called the Harbour Craig coal; and in the laft glen is a ftratum of freeftone, different from thofe of Mairfield, and Monk's Burn, of a good quality. In the fecond glen, a crumbling freeftone rock, the whole depth of the bank, produces a face of pure white fand, upon which nothing will grow. Between and the Rumbling Well, as alfo on the north fide of the houfe, was found a large piece of diamond fpar, and above the limeftone, fouth of the well, is a thick bed of clay marl. In digging gravel, with which the little eminences are commonly filled, have been got, particularly on the eaft fide of Monk's Burn, and between and the Spittal Hills, pebbles and bloodftones, fome of which have been cut into very beautiful feals. Immediately above the chalybeate fpring, or Monk's Burn, is a thin stratum of lime, with a bed of blue till over it, in which have been found the entire petrified fhells mentioned elsewhere, most of which are in the proprietor's poffeffion. Beyond the Spittal Hills, and on the fide of the Efk at the foot of them, below the junction of two rivulets, is a fmall valley, with fome little green mounts rifing out of it; and at the extremity of the grounds to the north, on an eminence commanding the whole track of the Forth, from Inch Keith upwards, is a grey ftone appearing above the heath, called the Boar Stane. On this fide of the hills, though the fhooting is much hurt by its proximity to the capital, there are a confiderable number of groufe, as alfo on the Harleymuir to the fouth. In the Ek there is good fishing, though most of the trouts are imal; but in the Mairfield Loch are fome large fish, and the perches are in fuch abundance, that two rods have been known to catch 24 dozen in a couple of hours. The partridges are plenty, VOL. XVII.

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