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form of a cairn within his grounds at St. Bennet’s.
demolished in 1871.
Convent of St. Margaret’s, about a miIe to the westward.
The last fragment was
We give an Engraving of the entrance to the modern
CA~RN AT sr. BENNET’S.
Beside Ashfield Villa, at the north-eastern extremity of Chamberlain
Road, leading from Greenhill Gardens to Merchiston, is a small unroofed
enclosure, which appears to have been used as a place of burial during the
last visitation of the Plague in the year 1645. The entrance door is sur-
ENTRANCE TO ST. YARGARET’S CONVENT.
mounted by a pedimental stone, bearing the letters I * L and E * R, with the
date 1645; and on the inner side of the west wall is a large incised slab,
measuring 6 feet 8 inches by rather more than 3 feet. The upper portion
