Nicolson and Burn remark, when they tell the story, "So say the Countess of Pembroke's Memoirs, and other historical anecdotes. But from the improbable length of the course, we would rather suppose, that they ran to Nine Kirks, that is the Church of Ninian the Scottish Saint, and back again, which from some parts of the park might be far enough for a greyhound to run." These writers have overlooked the circumstance, that the animal which in those days was called a greyhound was the ancient deerhound, a large species of dog having the form of the modern greyhound, but with shaggy hair and a more powerful frame. The breed is not yet extinct: Sir Walter Scott's Maida was of the species. Dr. Burn deals another blow at the tradition; for he goes on to say, "And _before_ this time there was a place in the park denominated from the _Hart's horns_; which seem therefore to have been put up on some former occasion, perhaps for their remarkable largeness. For one of the bounder marks of the partition aforesaid between the two daughters of the last Robert de Veteripont is called _Hart-horn sike_". III.--Dr. Percy, referring to the expression _hart-o-greece_ in a verse given below from the old ballad of "Adam Bell," explains it to mean a fat hart, from the French word _graisse_. "Then went they down into a lawnde, These noble archarrs thre; Eche of them slew a hart of greece, The best that they cold se." Clarke, in an appendix to his "Survey of the Lakes," speaking of the Red Deer which is bred upon the tops of the mountains in Martindale, gives _Hart of Grease_ as the proper name of the male in the eighth year. In Black's "Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes," it is stated in a note upon this subject, that there is an ancient broadside proclamation of a Lord Mayor of London, preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, in which, after denouncing "the excessyve and unreasonable pryses of all kyndes of vytayles," it is ordered that "no citizen or freman of the saide citie shall sell or cause to be solde," amongst other things, "Capons of grece above XXd. or Hennes of grece above VIId." BEKAN'S GHYLL. Dim shadows tread with elfin pace The nightshade-skirted road, Where once the sons of Odin's race In Bekan's vale abode; Where, long ere rose Saint Mary's pile, The vanquish'd horsemen laid Their idol Wodin, stained and vile, Beneath the forest's shade. There hid--while clash of clubs and swords Resounded in the dell, To save it from the Briton's hordes When Odin's warriors fell-- It lay with Bekan's mightiest charms Of magic on its breast; While Sorcery, with its hundred arms, Had sealed the vale in rest.