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Black Hill.
Mr. Biber Erskine charges 1/- [£0.1.0] for entry!!
To Cowdenknowes where Col. [Colonel] & Mrs. Hope & Mrs. and
Miss Adrian Hope accompanied me up the Black
Hill. The remains of the camp are very scanty
and Dr. [Doctor] Christison’s description may hold good,
except that the double row of stones around the
summit are not very apparent. At Cowden:
:knowes besides the tower described by Mac:
:Gibbon & Ross, the house itself merits some
description. It has consisted of a central

Cowdenknowes
building of two storeys & a basement with a wing
projecting Southward at either end at right angles.
The gables of the wings are now terminated with crow steps.
About half way up the gable is carried
out on ornamented corbels and on the corbel
table around the E [East] wing there is an inscription
Feir God etc. The inscription begins on the
West face of the wing & has been carried all
round but has in large measure disappeared.
There are two doorways. One in the base of the
S. [South] face of the W. [West] wing above which are the letters
S.J.H and V.K.H and date 1574. and on a pediment above the other
on the W. [West] wall of the E [East] wing which is surmounted
by a monogram which probably stands for
S. James Hume.” On the S [South] side of
the detached tower is the date 1554 which
has been recut. The windows of the house have

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