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[Opposite page - text inserted] See Gibson’s “An old Berwickshire Town” for information about Greenlaw.

description appears to be quite accurate. Of
the tumulus shown on the 6” maps as existing
on the haugh opposite there is not a trace. The
haugh has been long ago ploughed over and
the broad ridges are very apparent. The “site of
Station” near the rifle range disclosed nothing.
The walk down the banks of the Blackadder is
very beautiful. The dark water of the stream ripples
below high scaurs of red crumbling rock and
through fresh green haughs, while on the top of the
banks the moors brown with the faded
heather-blooms stretch back to the cultivable land
to Eastward and to the North are lost in the
misty distance where the Dirringtons loom
out on the horizon. I got back to Greenlaw
too late for the train so bicycled off to Duns
by a splendid road arriving at the Swan Hotel,
about 6.0. The Inn seems comfortable and
I have had a satisfactory dinner with a couple
of Commercial travellers – one in the beer line &
the other in lead pipes & sanitaries! Good fellows
& informative on their own subjects.

8th. Oct. 1908
At the Swan Hotel Duns. A fine morning for a
long expedition to the Mutiny Stones 12 miles off.
Started about 10.30 for Longformacus a drive of
7 miles over high country & down again to the
village by the Dye water. First to the Manse

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