Again enter the-county of
R o x b u r g h ;
I foon after fee, on a high cliff above the water, a finall Roman
kip, with two deep foffes on the land fide; and not far diftant,
¡exploratory mount. The view grows more pi&urefque; the
Jet, bounded by lofty cliffs, cloathed with trees ; and on a rifing
ittle beyond appear the great woods of Fleurus, and the houfe it>
'nt, the feat of the Duke of Roxburgh.
tafs beneath the fite of the once potent caftle of Roxburgh,
ted on a vail and lofty know!,' of an oblong form, fuddenly
Jng out of the plain, near the jun&ion of the Tweed and the
|»«i. On the north and weft it had been defended by a great fofs.
le fouth impends over the Tiviot; fome of whofe waters, were
jetted in former times into the caftle ditch, by a dam obliouely
jffing the ftream, and whofe remains are ftill vifible. A few
jgments of walls are all that exift of this mighty ftrength ; the
pe area being filled with trees of confiderable age. At the foot
js once feated a town of the fame name, deftroyed by James II.
Jen he undertook the fiege of the caftle, and probably never
fuilt.
Peantient name of the caftle was Marchidun, or the hill on the
Mies *. The name of the founder eludes my enquiry. The
Jt mention I find of it is in 1132-f, when a treaty was concluded
,c°n the part of king Stephen, by Thurjlan, archbiihop of York,
1 and David I. In 1174, after William the. Lion was taken.
Camden. 4 Halinjbead, Hill. Scot, 183»
prifoner
R oman c a m ? .
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R o x b u r g h .