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Volume No: 7
[Page] 1

Sunday, 7th May 1911. Glendarroch, Kirkcowan.
Here we arrived late on Friday afternoon
to undertake the survey of the ancient
monuments of Galloway. Glendarroch is
a shooting lodge on Craighlaw Estate, the
original part of which was brought over from
Norway and is of wood, as also are the wings
which have been later additions. A stone-
throw in front of the door lies a little
loch with tall bullrushes nodding by its
margin at one end, and rhododendrons
dipping their leaves in the water at the
base of the heather clad hillock on the
other side. Moorland sprinkled with
grey boulders lies all around us, and
the call of the cuckoo and the long drawn
out whistle of the curlew are never wanting
for long. Across ten or twelve miles of
undulating country, where moor and farm
land intermingle, with here and there a
white washed farm house gleaming from
a clump of trees, lies Cairnsmoor of Fleet
along the horizon. The tones of colour
on woodland and field are something
to revel in just now. The hawthorns are

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