Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . ains of the old times and their arts. Thetown lies on ground rifing from the wefl: bank of the Jed, andis furrounded by pleafant gardens and cheerful \ illas fcatteredamongft them and their orchards. Around rife wooded flopes,and at a diftance is defcried the dark bulk of Carter the caftle hill rifes alfo the Dunion ; northward is feenHartrigg, the feat of Lord Campbell; and farther off theheights of Penilheugh, with its Wellington monument. Theneighbouring dale of Teviot is extremely fine, and varied byits hills and flopes, a
Ruined abbeys and castles of Great Britain and Ireland . ains of the old times and their arts. Thetown lies on ground rifing from the wefl: bank of the Jed, andis furrounded by pleafant gardens and cheerful \ illas fcatteredamongft them and their orchards. Around rife wooded flopes,and at a diftance is defcried the dark bulk of Carter the caftle hill rifes alfo the Dunion ; northward is feenHartrigg, the feat of Lord Campbell; and farther off theheights of Penilheugh, with its Wellington monument. Theneighbouring dale of Teviot is extremely fine, and varied byits hills and flopes, and maffes of wood, remains of the ancientforeft. The Jed, as well as the Teviot, charmed Burns,who vifited Jedburgh in 1789, and fung of Eden fcencs oncryfl:al Jed. Fcrniehurft Caftle, now in ruins, occupying 172 JEDBURGH ABBEY. a fteep bank overhanging the Jed, and enriched with ancientwoods, is a fine objedl. On the Jed, at Southdean, underCarter Fell, lived the poet Thomfons father, w^hen theembryo bard was only two years old, and there he fpent his. JEDBURGH : WESTERN GATEWAY. boyhood. From this place his father fent him, mountedbehind a fervant man, to Edinburgh, to the univerfity j but thetown was by no means to the tafte of the author of TheSeafons : he had found his way back to the manfe on footbefore the man had got there on horleback, and declared to JEDBURGH ABBEY. ^73 the aftoniftied family, that he was fure he could ftudy as wellin Southdean as in Edinburgh. Dr. Somerville, the hiflorianof William and Anne, was for more than fifty years miniflerof Jedburgh ; and there was born the celebrated Mrs. Somer-
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