Scald Law, the Black Hill, Carnethie, and Turnhouse Hill, retiring in perspective, and skirted by the road to Edinburgh.-Behind, near half a mile off, to the north-east, in that direction, terminating the Marfield farm, and the natural scenary of the Gentle Shepherd, is the Cow Craig, marked in the map. For the old tenement in the middle of the farm, Ramsay has substituted the "onstead" and cottages, on its southern extremity, at the foot of the Monks' Burn, as being a more pastoral, and picturesque habitation for honest Glaud, and his two fair shepherdesses.

Within a hundred yards eastward, on the left, is the glen of the North Esk; with the Marfield Lint Mill and Quarry on this side of the water; and the Harlaw Muir on the other, stretching several miles north-east, and south-west, behind the point from it, on which SYMON'S HOUSE stands.

To the south-west, in front, is the Marfield Loch, with the glen of the Esk, containing the Marfield Wood, between it and the point from the Harlaw Muir, on the highest part of which is situated SYMON'S HOUSE, re-built about thirty yards farther west, and from the moor, than the old foundations. The loch is always of the same depth, although it has no visible supply or outlet. It is full of perches,

east, south, and west are bounded by the glen of the Esk, in which there are plenty of trouts. Beyond the farmstead, forming the farther west side of the point, is the valley of the Harbour Craig, with the glens and burns of the Harbour Craig and Carlops entering the other side of it, and the rock itself, above them, fronting towards the farmstead. west gable of the building, as in the engraving, points up the Carlops Burn, to the Carlops Hill in the dis

tance.

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Westward, between and this end of the Carlops Hill, where, at the village of the Carlops, the Esk issues from behind the Pentlands, is the site of NewHall House. Half-way nearer, opposite to the extremity of the point from the Harlaw Muir, at the mouth of the Monks' Burn, and the head of the Monks' Haugh, with the Esk, and the "plain" or "loan," between it and SYMON'S HOUSE, is Glaud's Onstead in the bottom of the glen.

And on the north-west, to the right, is the Monks' Burn, with the Monks' Rig on this side of its source; and the 'Spitals, and 'Spital Hills, opposite to New Hall, on the other side of the burn. Terminating these heights, westward is Patie's Hill, a part of which is seen in the view, with the deep ravine beyond-it, hollowed by the Esk in penetrating the Pentlands,

from its head at Harper Rig behind them. The Esk separates Patie's, from the Carlops Hill more remote in the distance; these mountains forming its banks, and the two sides of the ravine. Patie's Hill, the 'Spitals, New-Hall House, Glaud's Onstead, and the Marfield Loch, are in Edinburgh-shire or Mid-Lothian; and the Carlops Hill, village, and lands, and Symon's House, with the Harlaw Muir, are in Peebles-shire or Tweeddale.

Several years ago, the yawl of one of the pickeroons, or pirates, of the West Indies, had been picked up, in the gulf of Mexico, by a vessel from thence to Clyde; and, being entirely built of cedar, was sent, as a curiosity, to the proprietor of the lake. Being repaired and painted at Leith, it was launched into the loch, and gives it life and spirit.

When, from the eastern extremity, the glare of a summer noon is mellowed by the mildness of the evening, before his retiring beams are intercepted by the wester 'Spital Hill; when the fish begin to leap, and the boat, with its broad ensign streaming at its stern, shoots along the bright surface, o floats, stationary, and at rest on the smooth bosom of the lake; —when, on this site, and at this time, the sun gets behind SYMON'S HOUSE, on the height beyond the

his warm empurpling rays on the Carlops Hill in the offskip, to the right of the farmstead, the whole forms as enchanting a pastoral picture as the pencil can select.

PLANTS found in the vicinity of the Marfield Loch; on the Farm; and in the Wood, on the North Bank of the Esk.

(3) Avena strigosa,

On the Marfield FARM.

Black or gray oat;

The kind cultivated in the north of Scotland, and the Islands.

Scirpus caspitosus,

Erica vulgaris,

Cran-berry.

Rein-deer lichen.

This is the food of the rein-deer, in Lapland.

cinerea,

tetralix,

Scaly-stalked club-rush.

Common heath.

Bell-heather, or fine-leaved heath.

Rinze-heather, or cross-leaved

heath.

Meadow soft-grass;

Holcus lanatus,

Holcus avenaceus,

There is much hay made of this in meadows.

This is cultivated for fodder in Sweden.

Oat-like soft-grass;

The leaves of this plant form a ready, and sudden vomit.

Pinus rubra,

Buck-bean, or bog-bean.

Earth-nut, or ar-nut. On the banks.

Scots fir or pine. Ditto, self

sown, rising, from the dry gravelly soil, through the green sward, in great numbers, &c.

In the WOOD.

(2) Agaricus deliciosus.

(2) Phallus impudicus. In wet summers, in the fir-wood very fetid. Agaricus integer.

- fascicularis.