Within an hour's walk from Melrose, and four or five years only after the completion of that edifice, the foundations of this were laid.

It is astonishing.

We will not dwell upon it now, but make a separate chapter on it when I have seen most of the other ruins of the kind in the kingdom.

The French are given to the habit of festooning the monuments and graves of their relatives and friends with immortelles.

Nature has hung one of hers to Dryburgh Abbey.