'A reader has sent us two photos graphs of the country in which Bemersyde estate is situated, but unfortunately they were taken on particularly misty day and as a yeoult arg unsuitable for publicns tion, But while they would not reproduce well by any jyrinting process, one gots an idea of the Deauty of that district, and it i not unlikely that this, coupled with the historical associations of the place, led the late Field Marshal to express the desire to be buried at Dryburgh Abbey. Our correspond. fent adds the interesting comment about thio district, that it was the Bemersyde country which cone stitutes at least part of what is called "Sir Walter Scott's view," as in accordance with the great novelist's wishes his funeral stopped there so that all the mourners might enjoy "one of the finest views in the world." The landscape soon at this point is of richly wooded, une dulating country with the Eildon Hills in the background, these being the three famous peaks which the Romans called Trimontium. Dry-burgh Abbey lies in a bend of the Twoed a few miles south of Bemersyile House, and its historic associations are in keeping with those of all that part of the country, and incidentally with those of the Haig family, for the carly ancestors of the great soldiers have left a record of being intimately sociated with every border foray which took place in their day. Little wonder, then, that E: should desire to find his I place amid such surroundings,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.