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passed on to Campbell's Hotel, Broadford, Isle
of Skye, where we stayed for a week. The Hotel
is a Temperance one, but more comfortable than
that at Glenelg. Here we did long walks to
Torran, etc. The weather broke down before we
left but on the last Saturday we hired the car
and went off to see duns on the coast near
Elgol, which lay on the other side of Loch Slapin
beyond Torran, & near to Loch Skavaig. These
particular duns were very interesting, being
built on narrow promontories, and while
not being brochs, still in their hollowed walls
& superimposed galleries showing features
characteristic of brochs. A Mr Sayce, a
young archaeologist, lecturer at Aberystweth
University, whom we met in the hotel, came
with us. From Skye we returned
home on 6th September. Since then I
have lectured in the Museum to the Glasgow
Archaeological Society, to the Women's Institute
at East Linton, when I stayed with the
Dundases at Phantassie, at Whittingham,
when I stayed with Mr Balfour & was honoured
by having him presiding; & to the Egyptian
Students Research Society in Edinburgh, all
on the Traprain Law finds. Mr Balfour was

a very charming host, and much interested in
the find of silver & the results of our excavations.
The party to attend the lecture consisted besides
my host, of Miss Balfour, Lady Wemyss, the widow
of the late Ld. [Lord] Wemyss, & Lady Elcho.
This has been a year of great gardening
operations. On the East side of our garden
we made a new bed partly on the site of the
path & put the path where the bed had been,
The soil was so bad that we had to dig it out
to a depth of 2 ft. [feet] & get it removed. To take
its place we had to get 10 cartloads of good
loam from the field beyond the allotments.
This little operation greatly exceeded my
expectations in the amount of labour and
including the manure cost me £10. Then
I got in more manure, & trenched all the
other beds also from the bottom of the bed
on the west side I removed a ft. [foot] of bad rub:
:bish & filled up its place with the top spit
from the old bed on the East side, putting
the rubbish there to form the path. These com:
:plicated maneouvres over, we have replanted
our beds with many fresh plants including
a number of fine new delphiniums from
wells at Merstham, Surrey. On the bank
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