Still fresh + though weather cock pointed N.E. it was much milder. There was some sun also in the afternoon. The hills however are quite white + the snow is heavy on the Greenhill Road. After seeing some town cases walking I drove to Lilliesleaf + Newhouse1 + after lunch rode Macaulay2 to Blackhaugh going + coming by the Ford.3
1 Newhouse, Lilliesleaf, grid reference NGR NT522,235, Ordnance Survey six inch Roxburghshire Sheet XIII.SE, published 1899 and, the Editor assumes, the almshouses at Lilliesleaf.
2 Macaulay was one of Dr Muir’s horses.
3 Blackhaugh, Caddonfoot Parish, grid reference NGR NT42355,38350, where the ford across the Caddon Water is clearly visible on Ordnance Survey six inch Selkirkshire Sheet III.SE, published 1900. The proprietor was The Right Honourable Baroness Fanny G J Reay and the tenants of the various houses there included John Elliot, Walter Hogarth, George Paton, John Brockie and George Hope.
[Source: Scottish Borders Archives & Local History Service SBA/657/7, Dr J S Muir of Selkirk, medical practitioner, journal for 1904]
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