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"We have now traced four lineages of men into the well watered vale of Upper Tweed
the Britons, the Romans, the Scots Irish, and the Scots Saxons, Yet it is very difficult
to assign to each of them their appropriate antiquities particularly the Terraces
which abound in this district. Of such works the most considerable are those
on a beautiful green mound Called Terrace Hill above Newlands. Along the wh [whole]
face of this hill there are eleven or twelve terraces from 15 to 20 feet broad which rise
by a regular gradation to the top. Somewhat more than ½ a mile northward from Terra [Terrace]
Hill there is a smaller mound called the moot hill which has several tiers of terraces on [it]
and which from its name appears to have been appropriated in more modern times for
the administration of justice to a rustic people".

"When or by whom those terraces were formed it is not easy to ascertain. The tradition
among the inhabitants is that they were made by the Picts to whom like the giants of o [old]
lands the country people attribute all the more ancient works that were formed b [--]
by the Britons who as we have seen were the proper Picts. From the example of the
Catrail we Know that the Romanized Britons were capable of undertaking and execut [executing]
much larger works. But whatever people did construct those terraces they were evid [evidently]
intended for the accommodation of Spectators to enjoy some Sport of whatever Kind though
Some of them were afterwards appropriated to the administration of justice". -- Chalmers Caledonia, Vol [volume] 2 page 916

Transcriber's notes

See also pages 33 and 35.