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vogue, grow roses and trailing plants. The
cross is a slender column with chamfered
edges set on a "drum" of masonry, supporting
a square cap with chamfered corners, dated
on one face 1638 and surmounted
by a large stone ball from which issues
a formidable spike, suggestive as suitable
for the heads of traitors or other disagreeable
persons, but in reality the remains of a
weather vane. MacGibbon has measured
it so I look to him for its description.
Arrived at the Craigdarroch arms my
first business was to procure an assistant,
this I was fortunately able to do right away
in the person of a son of Mr. Corrie the
postmaster and an enthusiastic Antiquary.
This done more writing up of notes engaged me
till the end of the afternoon when I wandered
up the glen of Dalwhat. The Lychnis and
Stitchwort are all out below the hedge rows
in full blossom hawthorn and
in the meadows here and there are
clusters of globe flowers. The orchises
seem barely out here yet though I saw
some a fortnight ago at Creetown.

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