. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. 3P X ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 105. Crichton Castle ^^HE Parish of Crichton, in Midlothian, is full of small hills andcorresponding valleys, the sides of which are abrupt and steep,like the declivities of mountain ranges. The whole surface ofthe soil, indeed, has more the aspect of a pastoral mountaindistrict in miniature, than the common effect of mere un-dulating ground, where the slopes are usually gentle, and sometimesbarely perceptible. Through one of these valleys run the infant waters ofthe Scottish Tyne, which, here a small slugg
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. 3P X ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND 105. Crichton Castle ^^HE Parish of Crichton, in Midlothian, is full of small hills andcorresponding valleys, the sides of which are abrupt and steep,like the declivities of mountain ranges. The whole surface ofthe soil, indeed, has more the aspect of a pastoral mountaindistrict in miniature, than the common effect of mere un-dulating ground, where the slopes are usually gentle, and sometimesbarely perceptible. Through one of these valleys run the infant waters ofthe Scottish Tyne, which, here a small sluggish rivulet, is enlarged to aconsiderable stream ere it falls into the sea, near Dunbar. On the top ofof a bold, projecting, grassy mound, at the base of which the streammakes a quick turn, the ruins of Crichton Castle rise abrupt from the edge of thesteep ascent. Sir Walter Scotts well known description is probably calculated togive an exaggerated idea of the stream and the general character of the scenery : That Castle rises on the steep, Of the green vale of Tyne ;And far beneath, whe
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