Colmslie stands on Colmslie hill.
The water it flows round Colmslie mill;
The mill and the kiln gang bonnily.
And it's up with the whippers of Colmslie.

Langshaw, although larger than the other mansions assembled at the
head of the supposed Glendearg, has nothing about it more remarkable
than the inscription of the present proprietor over his shooting
lodge--_Utinam hane eliam viris impleam amicis_--a modest wish,
which I know no one more capable of attaining upon an extended scale,
than the gentleman who has expressed it upon a limited one.

Having thus shown that I could say something of these desolated
towers, which the desire of social intercourse, or the facility of
mutual defence, had drawn together at the head of this Glen, I need
not add any farther reason to show, that there is no resemblance
between them and the solitary habitation of Dame Elspeth Glendinning.
Beyond these dwellings are some remains of natural wood, and a
considerable portion of morass and bog; but I would not advise any who
may be curious in localities, to spend time in looking for the
fountain and holly-tree of the White Lady.

While I am on the subject I may add, that Captain Clutterbuck, the
imaginary editor of the Monastery, has no real prototype in the
village of Melrose or neighbourhood, that ever I saw or heard of. To
give some individuality to this personage, he is described as a
character which sometimes occurs in actual society--a person who,
having spent his life within the necessary duties of a technical
profession, from which he has been at length emancipated, finds
himself without any occupation whatever, and is apt to become the prey