Excerpt from Border Essays

The Vale of Manor from the point where the stream rises, some 2000 feet above sea-level, on the brow of Shielhope Head, in the heart of the Southern hills, to where it joins the Tweed, runs in the line of the old ice-flow from south-west to north-east, and is not more at its utmost than ten miles in length. Yet this vale in its short compass shows the varied elements of grandeur and beauty in a very rare degree. It impresses and subdues by mountain and crag; it touches eye and heart with a symmetry of opposing yet alternating and harmonious lines of hills, and a winsome grace peculiarly its own.

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