54] Notwithstanding the failure of Jean's issue, for which Weary fa' the waefu' wuddie, a granddaughter survived her, whom I remember to have seen.

That is, as Dr.Johnson had a shadowy recollection of Queen Anne as a stately lady in black, adorned with diamonds, so my memory is haunted by a solemn remembrance of a woman of more than female height, dressed in a long red cloak, who commenced acquaintance by giving me an apple, but whom, nevertheless, I looked on with as much awe as the future Doctor, High Church and Tory as he was doomed to be, could look upon the Queen.

I conceive this woman to have been Madge Gordon, of whom an impressive account is given in the same article in which her mother Jean is mentioned, but not by the present writer:-- 'The late Madge Gordon was at this time accounted the Queen of the Yetholm clans.

She was, we believe, a granddaughter of the celebrated Jean Gordon, and was said to have much resembled her in appearance.

The following account of her is extracted from the letter of a friend, who for many years enjoyed frequent and favourable opportunities of observing the characteristic peculiarities of the Yetholm tribes:--"Madge Gordon was descended from the Faas by the mother's side, and was married to a Young.