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Bridge. On the right, two miles up the Teviot, is Chesters (W.
Ogilvie, Esq.) (9^) Bonjedward. Half a mile to the east is
the celebrated Koman causeway which crossed the Jed, and is
still in a state of preservation, from the Jed to the Border hills.
On the right is seen Tympandean, with the ruins of an ancient
tower. On left is Bonjedward Bank (Major Pringle). Two
miles east of Bonjedward is Crailing, the ancient seat of the
Cranstouns, the border family that figures in the Lay of the
Last Minstrel, situated on the retired and romantic stream of
Oxnam, which here falls into the Teviot. Descending from this
point there is a beautiful and extensive view, comprehending
Jedburgh town and Abbey, the River Jed and surrounding
country. A conspicuous object in the distance is
“ Dark Ruberslaw that lifts its head sublime,
Rugged and hoary with the wrecks of time!
On his broad misty front the giant wears
The horrid furrows of ten thousand years;
His aged brows are crown’d with curling fern,
Where perches grave and low the hooded Erne.”
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