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get over the water, a painful operation.) The con:
:cluding four or five miles to Byrecleugh was over
a track and sometimes over open moor till
we reached the Dye when we encountered an
execrable road. I don’t think I ever had such
a jolting. The Houses at Byrecleugh are very
picturesque, harled and thatched. There is said
to be one thatcher in Gordon or Greenlaw, I forget
which, who still plies his craft. I expect the

Mutiny stones.
last of his trade. The Mutiny Stones are situated
on the Pyatshaw Ridge about 3/4 mile north of Byre:
:cleugh shooting Lodge. They form a cairn 278 feet
long running East and West. At the West end the
elevation is not now more than 3 ft. [feet] and the original
breadth still apparent 26 ft. [feet]. At a distance of 98
ft. [feet] from the Western extremity a trench has been
cut through the centre – the breadth here being still
26 ft. [feet]. Proceeding Eastwards the cairn gradually
rises in height and at 218 ft. [feet] it expands in
breadth till towards the extremity it attains a
width of 76 ft. [feet]. It reaches its greatest height at
the East end 11 1/2 feet above the ground level.
It is much dilapidated especially along the
South side where a large sheep fold has been
built out of it, and much of it has from time
to time been carted away for dykes. The
stones of which it is composed are the whin stones

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