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Carse
On examining the curiosities which Mr Riddel had
collected together on his romantic estate, we were
struck with the appearance of a large Druid Circle,
which at vast labour and expense Mr Riddel had had
collected from different parts, such as masses of
large blocks of whinstone, freestone,
and which are arranged with great care and taste, so
as to bear every appearance of a place of worship as
used by those early and pious people: this Temple
had the novelty of being set down on a British Camp,
which itself is situated on the border of a declivity
of a bend on the river Nith, to the West of the dwell:
:ing-house, and is a strong position to prevent an
enemy fording the water here or annoying this vicinity.
We measured this strength, and found the diameter to
be about 150 feet or 471 feet in circumference, with
a fosse or ditch about 12 feet in width.