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Roman Road continued:-

"Leaving this, it continues along the Annan till that river is joined by its tributary the Evan. Crossing the latter it ascends to the high ground on its right bank, along which and bending to the left up the course of that stream, it proceeds till it enters the County of Lanark. This it does before reaching the summit, as several farms though lying on the Dumfriesshire side of the height and belonging to that county in ecclesiastical matters form Quoad Civilia part and portion of Lanarkshire; an anomaly which may be accounted for by their having at one time belonged to the powerful family of Douglas. On reaching the summit, it passes the almost insignificant elevation which here divides the Evan from a tributary of the Clyde, called Clydes Burn, which it crosses near the farmhouse of Little Clyde. Leaving Little Clyde, the Roman Road descends the right bank of Clydes Burn till it approaches the foot of Bodsberry hill, when it begins gradually to ascend from the stream. This hill forms the last of the range of hills which abut on the the valley of the Clyde. It is comparatively isolated being cut off from the others by a precipitous ravine. Most persons have supposed that the Roman Road proceeded round the south side of this hill betwixt is and the Clyde, but this I am able to state psoitively is a mistake, and that it either passed through the ravine above