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2.

accounted for an absence of smoke & I
enjoyed the spectacle of the Bass Rock
on one side of Scotland and Arran on
the other & John Burnet of Barns was
worthily represented by Cardon, Bradlaw,
C.C. & Dollar Law. On Sunday, a
week syne, we took a hurl by West
Calder & up the brae towards Lanark
& then walked to the Levenseat (where my
ancestor was alleged to have attended a
proscribed conventicle) from which
over a foreground of forbidding
hideousness - Fauldhouse, Benhar, Arm-
adale, etc there is a grand panorama of
the Highlands but not as fine as
from the Knock or Cavin-Papple (nr. Bathgate).

We are not going anywhere in
particular this year. I am on duty