DEVILS WALL.
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This famous wall which formerly sepa-


rated England from Scotland, many parts of


which still exist, and which even time has


not injured. The strength of the cement
and the hardness of the stone have persuad-
ed the inhabitants of the adjoining district
that it was built by the hand of the devil;
and the more superstitous amongst them
are very anxious to collect the smallest re-


mains of it. which they mix with the foun-
dation OF their houses, in order to give them
greater solility. A Scotch gardener, on


digging in the soil of his garden, found


stone of considerable size, upon which


was an inscription in the dialect of the peri


cd, purportlng that it had been placed there


for the security OF the walls ofthe castle and


of the garden, and that it had been brought
thther from the great wall, of which it had
formerly constituted part; but that there


would be as much danger in moving it. as
there would be advantage in leaving it in its
place. The owner of the estate, who was
less credulols than this ancestors. wished to
have it transported to another spot, in order
to expose it to public view as an ancient
monument. Workmen were employed to
raise it from the ground by means of ma
chinery, and they succeeded, as they would
have done with a common stone. 1t remain
Gu ui''u tHS St5C VI lHC WuDC tulioa-
ity induced several persons to descend into
the cavity, amongst the rest the gardener,
several servants and the two sons OF the
proprietor, who amused themselves for some
time il digging in the hole. The fatal stone
which had not been placed in a just equili-
brium, chose that moment for falling to the
bottom Of the cavity, and crushed all those
who were in it. The young wife of the ell
der ofthe two brothers soon learnt what had
She hurried to the garden, with
the wild transports of u woman who has no
thing left in the world TO care for; and she
arrived at the time when the workmen were
using their utmost efforts to raise the stone
again, ii the faint hope of finding some re-
mains Of life in the unfortunate sufferers
whom it covered. They had half raised it,
and it was in fact perceived, by certain


that they still breathed, when
the imprudent wife, losing all care tor her
self threw herself so precipitately on the
body Of her husband, that the workmen,
petrined BY her action, unfortunately let go
the machines which supported the stone,
and buried her VITA the others. This acci-
dent still further confirmed the superstition
Of the Scotch; they failed not to attribute it
to some power established for the preserva.
tion of the wall of Scotland, and all OF the
stones which have been detached from il.