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 KEITH HOUSE 509 FOURTH PERIOD be seen in many of the monuments in the Greyfriars' Churchyard in Edinburgh. PIG. 935. Keith House. View from the South. On a tree between the house and the church there was a bell, which was recently taken down. It is 20 inches high by 15 inches wide, and bears the date 1620, with a Maltese cross at the top, and a figure 2j inches long with a C or G on one side, and the upright part of an illegible letter on the other side. The bell, which is cracked, is now preserved in the house. EAST COATES HOUSE, EDINBURGH. This old country mansion of the seventeenth century was formerly in the western suburbs of Edinburgh, but during the last fifty years the town has greatly extended in that direction, and has completely sur- rounded the old mansion. It now stands in the grounds attached to St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, having been bequeathed, along with the lands adjoining, by the late Misses Walker for the purpose of building and endowing the Cathedral. The interior has been so much altered that the original arrangements can scarcely be denned. It has, however, been from the first a simple Scottish house of an oblong form, with a slight projection to the front