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Updated: May 19, 2025
Hyke a Teviot! now, boys, now!" and similar cheering halloos of the olden hunting-field, to which the impatient yelling of the hounds, now close of the object of their pursuit, gave a lively and unremitting chorus. The straggling riders began now to rally towards the scene of action, collecting from different points as to a common centre.
He was a linguist and a poet, and the friend of Walter Scott, and knew The mind whose fearless frankness naught could move, The friendship, like an elder brother's love. We remember what distant and what deadly shore has Leyden's cold remains, and people who do not know may not care to be reminded. Leaving Teviot, with Leyden for a guide, you walk, or drive,
Many of this class practise this double employment, and the economical traveller, who looks more to comfort than luxury, will not fail to patronize them. Next morning we took a foot-path over the hills to Jedburgh. From the summit there was a lovely view of the valley of the Teviot, with the blue Cheviots in the distance.
Followed down the Teviot to Denholm, the birth-place of the celebrated poet and linguist, Dr. John Leyden, another victim who offered himself a sacrifice to the costly honors and emoluments of East Indian official life. One great thought fired his soul in all the perils and privations of that deadly climate. It was to ascend one niche higher in knowledge of oriental tongues than Sir William Jones.
They had no fear of any interruption such as they had experienced before as, had Douglas news of negotiations going on between March and England, he would not think it necessary to watch the road between Edinburgh and the border and late in the evening they arrived at Ancrum, on the Teviot, having done fully fifty miles, since starting. Ten miles in the morning took them to Roxburgh.
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