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[Dundas Castle continued from page 7]

large sum of money when it fell into the hands of the Earl of Haddington. The expense of it was
so enormous as to involve him in difficulties from which he never recovered. Whilst it was in the course
of erection it is said that he delighted so much in the noise of hewing at the stones that in a fit of
sickness which confined him to his bed he ordered the masons to perform that operation in his antichamber"
-- Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Linlithgowshire 1843 page 100,

Dundas as the family is old must have had a castle of equal antiquity -- Chalmers Caledonia vol [volume] 2 p. [page] 859