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it is. Food here is in plenty as flour etc is used for bakery purposes & bacon is not rationed. After dinner one of the brothers then details himself as my guide. We then go out through Kilmahog past an ancient mill run by a sluice from river. On past a church of 11th century of which all which remains now is the bell which is in centre of gate. A stone wall made from stones of old church & now surrounds a fairly old burying place. Then we commence to climb one of the high hills on the top of which is Samson's putt a large stone of a different composition to anything seen in the neighbourhood. It is supposed to have come down in a glacier & the glacier dissoved here. Samson threw this stone from one hill to the next & as it was before breakfast he had not strength enough it fell on a low lying hill in the centre. From this point (where the bridge was very strong) we commenced ascent of Fordoun or Drum Mohr on two sides it is protected by a series of ditches with two bastions on which is a well still with water in it. It is said when Water lock on Kennacker was put in spring was cut but nevertheless water was in it when I saw it. It is said that somebody intends to dig up this well for weapons but if iron they would be rusted & if flint of no particular interest. The fort was impregnable in old days & was of British origin as Romans never built on a hill. The remains of an old Roman camp below - all that remains is a wall or rampart with a raised portion in centre said to be general headquarters.