Sweet through a boy's day-dream."
But it was not alone in a boy's day-dream that they sounded. To the end, they echoed and re-echoed in his heart, and no voice ever spoke to him so eloquently as that of Tweed,—by whose banks, indeed, in a spot greatly loved, had it been permitted he would fain have slept his long sleep.
JOHN LANG.
The artist wishes to call attention to the fact that his drawings were made during the long drought of 1911, when all the rivers were exceptionally low.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
KELSO abbey....................................Frontispiece
HALIDON HILL AND THE TWO BRIDGES, BERWICK.............[...003]
OLD BRIDGE AT BERWICK.................................[...006]
BUTTRESSES WITH CANOPIED NICHES AT EDROM..............[...014]
AT CHIRNSIDE..........................................[...015]
DOORWAY IN GRAVEYARD AT EDROM.........................[...016]
NORHAM CASTLE.........................................[...046]
LADY KIRK.............................................[...047]
FORD CASTLE FROM THE ROAD.............................[...049]
LOOKING UP THE TILL FROM TWIZEL BRIDGE................[...050]
THE RIDGE ON WHICH THE SCOTTISH ARMY WAS ENTRENCHED
BEFORE THE BATTLE OF FLODDEN..........................[...051]
TWIZEL BRIDGE.........................................[...052]
THE SLOPES AT BRANXTON ON WHICH THE
BATTLE OF FLODDEN WAS FOUGHT..........................[...053]
SYBIL GREY'S WELL AT FLODDEN..........................[...055]
BRIDGE OVER THE LEET, COLDSTREAM......................[...057]
THE CHEVIOTS FROM COLDSTREAM FERRY....................[...060]
FLOORS CASTLE FROM KELSO..............................[...072]
KELSO.................................................[...073]
KELSO ABBEY...........................................[...075]
KELSO. TEVIOT IN FOREGROUND...........................[...076]
MEETING OF TWEED AND TEVIOT NEAR KELSO................[...077]
RUINS OF ROXBURGH CASTLE..............................[...079]
JEDBURGH FROM THE PARK................................[...091]
JEDBURGH ABBEY........................................[...103]
QUEEN MARY'S HOUSE, JEDBURGH..........................[...105]
FERNIHIRST CASTLE.....................................[...131]
CATCLEUCH RESERVOIR LOOKING SOUTH.....................[...142]
BRIDGE OVER JED WATER AT OLD SOUDEN KIRK.
THE CHEVIOTS BEHIND...................................[...148]
OTTERBURNE............................................[...162]
OTTERBURNE............................................[...163]
SOUDEN KIRK...........................................[...166]
JOHN LEYDEN'S BIRTHPLACE, DENHOLM.....................[...179]
CAVERS................................................[...185]
HAWICK................................................[...186]
THE TOWER INN, HAWICK.................................[...187]
HORNSHOLE BRIDGE......................................[...188]
ST. MARY'S, HAWICK....................................[...189]
VALE OF THE BORTHWICK WATER LOOKING TOWARDS HAWICK....[...191]
A GLIMPSE OF HARDEN...................................[...192]
GOLDIELANDS TOWER AND THE TEVIOT......................[...193]
BRANKSOME.............................................[...194]
BRANKSOME.............................................[...196]
LOOKING DOWN TEVIOTDALE FROM CAERLANRIG...............[...197]
TEVIOTHEAD KIRK.......................................[...202]
TOMB OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, DRYBURGH....................[...207]
SMALLHOLME TOWER......................................[...210]
EARLSTON..............................................[...218]
THE RIVER AT DRYBURGH ABBEY...........................[...221]
EILDON HILLS AND GORGE OF THE TWEED FROM LESSUDDEN....[...223]
MELROSE FROM NEWSTEAD.................................[...224]
MELROSE CROSS.........................................[...225]
EAST WINDOW, MELROSE ABBEY............................[...226]
DARNICK TOWER.........................................[...228]
ABBOTSFORD............................................[...230]
THE RHYMER'S GLEN.....................................[...232]
GALASHIELS, THE EILDONS IN THE DISTANCE...............[...238]
THE TWEED FROM THE FERRY, ABBOTSFORD..................[...241]
TOR WOOD LEE..........................................[...243]
ABBOTSFORD FROM THE LEFT BANK OF THE TWEED.
THE EILDON HILLS BEHIND...............................[...244]
WHERE TWEED AND ETTRICK MEET..........................[...245]
SELKIRK FROM THE HEATHERLIE...........................[...250]
THE ETTRICK FROM THE OUTSKIRTS OF SELKIRK.............[...260]
SELKIRK...............................................[...264]
THE ETTRICK AT BOWHILL................................[...274]
OAKWOOD TOWER.........................................[...277]
KIRKHOPE TOWER........................................[...279]
LOOKING UP ETTRICKDALE FROM HYNDHOPE..................[...280]
ETTRICK WATER AT THE DELORAINES.......................[...281]
THE BRIDGE AT TUSHIELAW...............................[...283]
ETTRICK VALE FROM HYNDHOPE............................[...284]
BUCCLEUCH.............................................[...285]
A GLIMPSE OF CLEARBURN LOCH...........................[...286]
ETTRICK KIRK..........................................[...288]
MILL GANG AT ETTRICK..................................[...290]
HYNDHOPE BURN.........................................[...291]
ST. MARY'S LOCH AND THE LOCH OF THE LOVERS............[...293]
ST. MARY'S LOCH.......................................[...295]
SITE OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH.............................[...296]
THE DOUGLAS BURN AND BLACKHOUSE TOWER.................[...297]
COCKBURNE'S GRAVE.....................................[...299]
COPPERCLEUCH POST-OFFICE AND A GLIMPSE UP MEGGETDALE..[...301]
TIBBIE SHIEL'S........................................[...302]
DRYHOPE TOWER.........................................[...304]
THE GORDON ARMS.......................................[...306]
VALE OF YARROW; THE GORDON ARMS IN THE DISTANCE.......[...307]
DEUCHAR BRIDGE........................................[...310]
THE DOWIE DENS........................................[...311]
NEWARK................................................[...315]
YAIR BRIDGE...........................................[...317]
FAIRNILEE.............................................[...320]
CADDONFOOT LOOKING TOWARDS YAIR.......................[...321]
THE INN AT CLOVENFORDS................................[...322]
THOMAS PURDIE'S GRAVE, MELROSE ABBEY..................[...323]
THE TWEED AT ASHIESTEEL...............................[...325]
THE TWEED BETWEEN ASHIESTEEL AND THORNILEE............[...326]
TOWER OF ELIBANK......................................[...328]
INNERLEITHEN..........................................[...329]
A ROAD BESIDE THE TWEED, NEAR CADDONFOOT..............[...331]
THE CLOSED GATES AT TRAQUAIR HOUSE....................[...332]
TRAQUAIR HOUSE........................................[...333]
WHERE THE QUAIR ENTERS THE TWEED ABOVE INNERLEITHEN...[...335]
ON THE ROAD TO PEEBLES................................[...336]
NELDPATH CASTLE.......................................[...341]
PEEBLES FROM NEIDPATH.................................[...343]
THE "BLACK DWARF'S COTTAGE IN THE MANOR VALLEY........[...344]
LOOKING UP THE MANOR VALLEY...........................[...346]
BRIDGE OVER THE LYNE WATER............................[...348]
LOOKING UP TALLA FROM TWEEDSMUIR POST-OFFICE..........[...360]
BRIDGE OVER TWEED AT TWEEDSMUIR.......................[...361]
TWEEDSMUIR............................................[...363]
TALLA RESERVOIR FROM TALLA LINN.......................[...366]
A SKETCH ON THE GAMESHOPE BURN........................[...368]
THE DEVIL'S BEEF TUB..................................[...376]
HERMITAGE CASTLE......................................[...384]
MEETING OF THE HERMITAGE AND LIDDEL...................[...386]
MILLHOLME OR MILNHOLM CROSS...........................[...389]
ON THE LIDDEL AT MANGERTON............................[...390]
CARLISLE CASTLE.......................................[...393]
CARLISLE AND THE RIVER EDEN...........................[...394]
CARLISLE FROM THE CASTLE RAMPARTS.....................[...395]
A BYWAY IN CARLISLE...................................[...396]
THE MARKET CROSS, CARLISLE............................[...397]
DICK'S TREE. THE BLACKSMITH'S SHOP WHERE
KINMONT WILLIE'S FETTERS WERE TAKEN OFF...............[...399]
THE REPUTED GRAVE OF KINMONT WILLIE IN SARK GRAVEYARD.[...400]
SARK BRIDGE AND TOLL-BAR..............................[...402]
THE BLACKSMITH'S SHOP, GRETNA GREEN...................[...403]
SOLWAY MOSS...........................................[...404]
ANCIENT CROSS, ARTHURET...............................[...405]
GORGE ON THE LIDDEL...................................[...406]
STUDY IN CARLISLE CATHEDRAL...........................[...407]
BRAMPTON..............................................[...408]
BEWCASTLE CHURCH AND CASTLE...........................[...410]
BEWCASTLE CROSS.......................................[...411]
NAWORTH CASTLE........................................[...412]
BEWCASTLE CROSS.......................................[...414]
KIRK ANDREWS TOWER, NETHERBY..........................[...417]
THE ARMSTRONG TOWER ON THE ESK........................[...419]
GILNOCKIE BRIDGE......................................[...420]
ON THE ESK AT HOLLOWS.................................[...422]
LANGHOLM..............................................[...424]
MAP—THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BORDER..........End of Volume