Descriptive account of the principal towns in Scotland

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with excellent water, conveyed to it by leaden pipes.
The neighbourhood of the Town, is noted for its fine
Orchards ; and excellent Free Stone is abundant in
the Parish.
The old Castle of Jedburgh, situated on an emi-*
nence at the Town head, (now occupied by the new
Goal), was a place of great strength and consequence
in ancient times, it was retaken from the English in
1409, by the Duke of Albany, who demolished it ; the
Keys of this Castle, were lately found, in digging near
to the spot on which it stood,
The Abbey of Jedburgh, founded by David the
First, for Canon Regulars, is situated on the banks of
the Jed, on the south side of the Town, and has been
a large and magnificent fabric, in form of a cross. Part
of the west end is fitted up for the Parish Church,
Which has a fine circular window in the gable. It
runs from east to west, and appears to have been ori-<
ginally three stories high, — in the first and second;
stories there are nine arches in each. The west end
from the steeple, and the south front are the most
entire parts of the ruins— the steeple is also nearly
entire, and about 120 feet high. To preserve, as fa?
as possible, this venerable fabric from total ruin, a
subscription was set on foot, to repair the Abbey in
such a manner as not to interfere with* or alter the
original Gothic,-^- a strong pr^»of of the good; taste of
the projectors of this praise-worthy undertakings For
a number of years past, the lofty pile of quadrangular
building, or tower, had been observed, to discover
symptoms of serious, decay, whicb if not checked,
might one? d«y pFOve fetal to the whole st$uct«r<\