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106 ; as I much wished to have seen more of that part of Tiviotdale, than I could do, by arriving so late as eight o'clock in the evening.—When I got out of the chaise, the inn looked large, but the inside of it was very dirty and uncomfortable, and rendered doubly so by the extremely wet day. There was a long demur, whether I could get either a sitting room, or a good bed-chamber; because company from the South had sent on to secure rooms, which their servant had done. Fortunately for me, I soon learnt this company was expected from Langholm; from which place, we convinced the landlord, they could not stir for want of horses. I was therefore let into the apartment occupied (as I was informed) by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh, whenever they came that way. His Grace (another piece of good luck for me) had stopped short of Hawick that day, at his factor's, Mr. Ogilvie's. Glad should I have been, and quiet too, had his Grace's servants been with him. They and their friends made a jolly evening of it at Hawick, and got completely intoxicated. Their noise, in the next room to mine, was very uncomfortable; and would have been alarming too, had I not taken good care of the fastenings between the two rooms.