added to the carn. The dimensions of the carns are in proportion to the time the spots have been used by the druids, and the populousness of their neighbourhoods. If every attendant at our Christian churches, was, each returning Sunday, to carry a stone with him, though easily transported, and of no great size, to be laid in the middle of the church-yard; the number, and magnitude of the cairns, over the country, would soon show what the most trifling efforts can accomplish, when, thus, regularly, and unremittingly continued, by a number of hands.

Besides these druidical cairns; during the same periods, on the plains were constructed the sepulchral cairns formerly noticed; the clachans; crombeachs; and the carrthadh, or erect pillar monumental stone, to mark out a hero's grave, or perpetuate a remarkable event, such as the Kel or Camus Stane, at Comiston, between Edinburgh and the Pentlands.

At the same time that the names of the hills help to ascertain the history of their cairns; those of the other objects in this district being derived from the . British or Welsh, the Scots or Galic, the Pictish or Cimbric, the Roman or Latin, and the Saxon, show the changes and mixture of inhabitants which, at different periods, have, here, taken place, from its central situation. That of the Scald Law seems to

have arisen, from the intercourse between the Picts, and the Romans, stationed about Patie's Hill, who may have advised them to name this forked height, in the middle of the Pentlands, the Scald or Poet's Hill, from its resemblance to that of Parnassus.

On the summit of the easter Spital Hill, where no kind of tree could now be reared, or even kept alive for any time, about sixteen hundred feet above the sea, in a peat-moss, the trunk of one of a considerable size has been laid open, in the course of digging out the surface for fuel; and a little way down both the easter and wester hills of the 'Spitals, are limesprings. The lands of the 'Spitals were long disjoined from, but are now again annexed to those of the New Hall, and the Carlops.

SYMON'S HOUSE.

Act 3. Scene 1.

SIR WILLIAM solus.

SOLILOQUY, (at the end.)

"Now tow'rds good Symon's house I'll bend my way,

"And see what makes yon gamboling to-day;

"All on the green in a fair wanton ring,

"My youthful tenants gaylie dance and sing.

(Exit.

Scene 2.

PROLOGUE.

"'Tis Symon's house, please to step in,
"An' vissy't round and round;
"There's nought superfl'ous to give pain,

"Or costly to be found.

"Yet all is clean: a clear peat ingle

"Glances amidst the floor:

"The green horn spoons, beech luggies mingle "On skelfs forgainst the door.

"While the young brood sport on the green,

"The auld anes think it best,

"With the brown cow to clear their een,
"Snuff, crack, and tak their rest.”

Act 5. Scene 1.,

PROLOGUE.

"See how poor Bauldy stares like ane possest, "And roars up Symon frae his kindly rest: "Bare-legg'd, with night-cap, and unbutton'd coat, 66 See, the auld man comes forward to the sot."

Scene 3. and last..

PROLOGUE.

"Sir William fills the twa arm'd chair,

"While Symon, Glaud, and Mause "Attend, and with loud laughter hear "Daft Bauldy bluntly plead his cause: