Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . ies ago, coveredwith wood, and its popular designation still is The Forest,of which, however, no vestige is now to be seen. The scenes are desert now, and flourished once a forest pathless Ettrick and on YarrowWliercerst the outlaw drew his arrow.—Scott. Crossing the Yarrow, a little beyond Philiphaugh, on theleft, will be seen Bowhill, one of the seats of the Duke ofBuccleuch. Newark Castle, the opening scene of Scotts Lay of the Last Jlinstrel— where Newarks stately tower Looks out from Yarrows birchen bower, is a massive square to
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . ies ago, coveredwith wood, and its popular designation still is The Forest,of which, however, no vestige is now to be seen. The scenes are desert now, and flourished once a forest pathless Ettrick and on YarrowWliercerst the outlaw drew his arrow.—Scott. Crossing the Yarrow, a little beyond Philiphaugh, on theleft, will be seen Bowhill, one of the seats of the Duke ofBuccleuch. Newark Castle, the opening scene of Scotts Lay of the Last Jlinstrel— where Newarks stately tower Looks out from Yarrows birchen bower, is a massive square tower, now unroofed and ruinous, surroundedby an outward wall, defended by round flanking tjirrets. It isbeautifully situated, about three miles from Selkirk, upon the 130 EXCnilSIONS FROM MELROSE. banks of the Yarrow, a fierce and rapid stream, which uniteswith the Ettrick about a mile and a half to the east of thecastle. Newark was built by .James II. The royal arms, withthe unicorn, are engraved on a stone in the western side of the. .\EWARK CASTLE. tower. There was a much more ancient castle in its immediatevicinity, called Auldwark, founded, it is said, by Alexander were designed for the royal residence, when the king wasdisposed to take his pleasure in the extensive forest of grants occur in the records of the Privy Seal, bestow-ing the keeping of the castle of Newark upon diiierent oiEceof keeper was latterly held by the family of Buccleuch,and with so firm a grasp, that when the forest of Ettrick wasdisparked, they obtained a grant of the castle of Newark inperpetuity. It was within the court-yard of this castle thatGeneral Leslie tarnished his victory by putting to death anumber of the prisoners whom he had taken at the battle ofPhiliphaugh. The castle continued to be an occasional seat ofthe Buccleuch family for more than a century ; and it is said,the Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch was brought up this reason, probably
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