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46 chaise, except a little meal and water. Close by Mosspole, you meet with the source of the river Ewes, which you were near all the way from Langholm, where, as I have before said, it unites with the Esk. Within a quarter of a mile from Mosspole, you join the Tiviot river near its source, and follow it to Hawick; where it is joined by the Slettrick water. You must contrive to be at Langholm early in the day, it being a long and tedious stage from thence to Hawick; I was eight hours in travelling it. At Hawick you must sleep, as there is no place between that and Edinburgh where you can possibly pass a night with any degree of comfort. I would advise you, even to get early to Hawick, lest other travellers should be there before you: there is but one sitting room at Hawick, and only one tolerable bed chamber, with two beds in it.

To Selkirk, 11 miles.

The inn is too bad, either to eat or sleep at; but horses good.

To Bankhouse, 15 miles. The inn very middling.

On leaving Selkirk, you cross the Ettrick water, running to the Tweed. Somewhat above the bridge by which you cross the Ettrick, the