LINN..........................366
     A SKETCH ON THE GAMESHOPE BURN...........................368
     THE DEVIL'S BEEF TUB.....................................376
     HERMITAGE CASTLE.........................................384
     MEETING OF THE HERMITAGE AND LIDDEL......................386
     MILLHOLME OR MILNHOLM CROSS..............................389
     ON THE LIDDEL AT MANGERTON...............................390
     CARLISLE CASTLE..........................................393
     CARLISLE AND THE RIVER EDEN..............................394
     CARLISLE FROM THE CASTLE RAMPARTS........................395
     A BYWAY IN CARLISLE......................................396
     THE MARKET CROSS, CARLISLE...............................397
     DICK'S TREE. THE BLACKSMITH'S SHOP WHERE
     KINMONT WILLIE'S FETTERS WERE TAKEN OFF..................399
     THE REPUTED GRAVE OF KINMONT WILLIE IN SARK GRAVEYARD....400
     SARK BRIDGE AND TOLL-BAR.................................402
     THE BLACKSMITH'S SHOP, GRETNA GREEN......................403
     SOLWAY MOSS..............................................404
     ANCIENT CROSS, ARTHURET..................................405
     GORGE ON THE LIDDEL......................................406
     STUDY IN CARLISLE CATHEDRAL..............................407
     BRAMPTON.................................................408
     BEWCASTLE CHURCH AND CASTLE..............................410
     BEWCASTLE CROSS..........................................411
     NAWORTH CASTLE...........................................412
     BEWCASTLE CROSS..........................................414
     KIRK ANDREWS TOWER, NETHERBY.............................417
     THE ARMSTRONG TOWER ON THE ESK...........................419
     GILNOCKIE BRIDGE.........................................420
     ON THE ESK AT HOLLOWS....................................422
     LANGHOLM.................................................424
     MAP—THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BORDER..........End of Volume

HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN THE BORDER

CHAPTER I BERWICK, TWEED, WHITADDER

The "Border" is a magical word, and on either side of a line that constantly varied in the course of English and Scottish victories and defeats, all is enchanted ground, the home of memories of forays and fairies, of raids and recoveries, of loves and battles long ago. In the most ancient times of which record remains, the English sway, on the east, might extend to and include Edinburgh; and Forth, or even Tay, might be the southern boundary of the kingdom of the Scots. On the west, Strathclyde, originally Cymric or Welsh, might extend over Cumberland; and later Scottish kings might hold a contested superiority over that province. Between east and west, in the Forest of Ettrick, the place-names prove ownership in the past by men of English speech, of Cymric speech, and of Gaelic speech. From a single point of view you may see Penchrise (Welsh) Glengaber (Gaelic) and Skelfhill (English). Once