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CHAPTER I.

From Langtown to Langholm, through Part of Eskdale.—A View of Netherby, Sir James Graham's—at Langholm, a Castle, the Duke of Buccleugh's.—Ewesdale—Mosspole—Part of Tiviotdale—Hawick—Selkirk—a fine Part of Tweedale, at Yair and Fairnalie—Bank House.—The first sight of Edinburgh, from the Middleton Road.—The President Dundas's.—Dalhousie Castle.—Leswade.—Melville Castle.

Carlisle has been so often described, and is so well known, that it is needless to say a word of that ancient town. I will therefore begin my peregrination from the division of the road; the one leading to Annan and Moffat; the other to Langholm, which I took. From Longtown to Langholm is a drive that must give pleasure and satisfaction to any one who has a taste for natural beauty