PLATE 2

Crag Loch and the Roman Wall 24

PLATE 3

Bamborough from Stag Rock 32

PLATE 4

Holy Island Castle: Harvest Time 36

PLATE 5

View of Norham Castle 40

PLATE 6

Twizel Bridge of the XIV. Century 44

PLATE 7

Flodden Field and the Cheviot Hills 48

PLATE 8

View of Warkworth 52

PLATE 9

View of Alnwick Castle 56

PLATE 10

View of Prudhoe-on-Tyne 60

PLATE 11

View of Carlisle 64

PLATE 12

View of Naworth Castle 68

PLATE 13

View of Lanercost Priory 72

PLATE 14

View of Bewcastle 76

PLATE 15

View of Melrose 80

PLATE 16

Melrose and the Eildons from Bemersyde Hill:
Scott's favourite View 84

PLATE 17

Dryburgh Abbey and Scott's Tomb 88

PLATE 18

The Remnant of Wark Castle 92

PLATE 19

Berwick-on-Tweed 96

PLATE 20

Hollows Tower (sometimes called Gilnockie
Tower) 100

PLATE 21

Goldilands, near Hawick 104

PLATE 22

"He passed where Newark's stately tower
Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower" 112

PLATE 23

View of New Abbey and Criffel 116

PLATE 24

Criffel and Loch Kindar 120

PLATE 25

Caerlaverock Castle 124

I. INTRODUCTION

From Berwick to the Solway as the crow flies is little more than seventy
miles. Between these two points lies the line that divides England from
Scotland. But to follow this line literally along its every little in
and out means a distance of no fewer than forty good miles more.
Stretching diagonally across the country--north-east or south-west--we
have the river Tweed as eastmost boundary for a considerable
space--close on twenty miles; then comes the lofty barrier of the
Cheviots extending to thirty odd miles, constituting the middle portion
of the Border line; and finally, the Kershope Burn, with the Liddel and
Esk Waters, and the small stream of the Sark, make u