Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760 . , vol. ii. pp. 233-246, 1881;The Cross, 1885, by Rev. James MFarlan, Ruthwell Parish Church. •• A small oval brass plate, inserted into a large flat tombstone. The inscrip-tion is very much worn, a part being now illegible. Ilic conditur quodmortale fuit Reverendi Viri Patricii Walker, Artium Magister. . Deinde. . per spatium viginti trium annorum apud nobilem virum Davidem Vice-comtem Stormont cujus sacris Domesticis praefuit. Commemoratus est. Mar. MDCCXXVii Eta. Hadrians Wall, north of Brampton, described by the Rev. C. Bru
Tours in Scotland 1747, 1750, 1760 . , vol. ii. pp. 233-246, 1881;The Cross, 1885, by Rev. James MFarlan, Ruthwell Parish Church. •• A small oval brass plate, inserted into a large flat tombstone. The inscrip-tion is very much worn, a part being now illegible. Ilic conditur quodmortale fuit Reverendi Viri Patricii Walker, Artium Magister. . Deinde. . per spatium viginti trium annorum apud nobilem virum Davidem Vice-comtem Stormont cujus sacris Domesticis praefuit. Commemoratus est. Mar. MDCCXXVii Eta. Hadrians Wall, north of Brampton, described by the Rev. C. Bruce in TheRoman Wall, p. 261, seq.; cf. also p. 328. RUTinVELL, IIODDAM. SS tend to alter the face of tlie whole country. There is alsothreat plenty of niarle in many jaarts, especially in the bogs. I went on three miles to the north-eixst into Anandale,and came to tlie fine cjistle of Hodani ^ on the Anan,from whicli there is a hanging ground to tliis river coveredwith wood, and it is a very beautiful country. I had a view. A Fragment at Ca> uj) the Anan of Melk ,^ very pleasantly situatedon a hill in the vale. Here I saw an altar found at theRoman Camp, called The Lawn,* at ]\Iidleby, which campI saw in 1747. There is a road from that camp to Carlisle,and also to another, which I saw at a mile distance under 1 Hoddam Castle. - This sculpture is presented in the Soc. of Ant. Mus., Edinburgh. Inthe left corner is the tip of a wing, and although Dr. Pococke calls it a frag-ment of a winged figure (p. 34), he has not shown the wing in the drawing. •^ Castlemilk. ?* This is a curious error. The Roman camp mentioned is situated within andupon the marches of the farm of Land, Middlebie—pronounced in the broaddialect of Annandale, //le Lan (a being sounded as in Lawn), and has no relationto a well-kept greensward. The Bishop visited this place in 1750, not in p. 6. C 34 TOUR THROUGH SCOTLAND, 11(50. Hiirnswork, and it <2;()es on to ^Nloftet.
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