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EARLSTON PARISH Continued Considerable varieties of soil appear in the parish of Earlston. The arable land is for the most part dry; it is of a loamy rather than a sandy nature and some of it is justly considered as strong and rich. A proportion of barren heath is here and there to be met with, and while in the eastern quarter there is a good deal of marshy ground there is a moss in the Northern division consisting of several hundreds of acres. The only remains of antiquity are, part of one of the walls of the Tower or Castle belonging to or of Sir Thomas the Rhymer, the pit, and Tower and trees of Cowdenknowes, a stone inserted in the wall of the church bearing the inscription " Auld Rhymers race lies in this place" and a stone taken from a grave, on which is a figure bearing a near resemblance to a Maltese Cross. There existed

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