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bead around the flat top and the lower edge of the
chamfered sides & ends. Uninscribed 5 ft. 6 in [5 feet 6 inches] long above ground
1 ft. 10 in. [1 foot 10 inches] broad at head, 1 ft. 4 in. [1 foot 4 inches] at base. & 1 ft. 10 in. [1 foot 10 inches] deep.
About 100 yards from the ? S. [South] end of the house set at
the base of an elm tree as a seat is a slab of sandstone
3 ft. 8 ins. [3 feet 8 inches] in length & about 2 ft. [2 feet] wide with a moulded
edge 7 1/2 ins. [inches] in depth in which occurs a line of rope
moulding. The stone is believed to have come from
the Earth house found at Newstead. (cf. Dr. [Doctor] Smith’s
Illus [Illustration]). Lord Polwarth showed me a beautiful little
cabinet of drawers about 2 ft. [feet] square of ? rosewood in:
:laid with ivory – the fronts of the drawers filled in
with a pattern in ? stained ivory & metal. It belonged
to Mary Queen of Scots. and is said to have come
from Fotheringay through an Elizabeth Drury, into the
Polwarth family. On leaving Merton I called
on Mr. Dodds the schoolmaster, & found on his
mantelpiece two glasses with opaque special
stems and engraved with a heraldic rose and
two natural buds. His wife’s grand’, or great grandfather
was a coachman who eloped with one of Lord
Airlie’s daughters! The same ancestry
as Jane Anderson my nurse who got drunk when
Sandy was an infant. Mightily curious!

[Opposite page - text inserted] On the East side of the road between Dryburgh
& Bemersyde at the top of the hill called the
Redbraes is the plinth or socket stone of a cross.
It is 2 ft [feet] above ground. 2 ft. [feet] square with a
square depression in the middle of the upper
surface – 1 ft. [foot] across and 7-8 ins. [inches] deep.


Got to Dryburgh about 1.30 and eat my lunch outside
the custodians cottage. The old corn mill is a
reconstructed building. with a fine cusped

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