FOGO, a parish, in the county of Berwick, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Dunse; containing 455 inhabitants, of whom about 35 are in the village. This place, though unconnected with any event of historical importance, has some claim to antiquity: from a confirmatory charter of Malcolm IV. in 1159, it is clear that the church of Fogo had been granted previously to that time to the monastery of Kelso. The parish is five miles in length from east and west, and two miles and a half in average breadth, comprising about 5000 acres, of which 4600 are arable, 300 woodland and plantations, and the remainder meadow and pasture. Its surface is traversed in the north by two parallel ridges of inconsiderable height, between which the river Blackadder flows throughout the whole length of the parish: on the south are some extensive level tracts. The scenery is pleasingly varied, and in parts enriched with timber of stately growth. The Blackadder, rising in some mossy land in the parish of Westruther (from which circumstance it takes its name), runs in a direction from east to west, and falls into the Whitadder in the parish of Edrora: it abounds with eels and trout of a reddish colour, but salmon are never found in its stream. There is a bridge of one arch on the road to Dunse, built in 1664, lately repaired, and which bears the name of the old family of Cockburn of Langton. On the higher land the soil is exceedingly fertile, consisting principally of a deep black loam; in the lower lands it is thinner, and of inferior qualify, resting on a retentive clay. The crops are oats, barley, wheat, and turnips; the system of agriculture is in an advanced state, and the four-shift course of husbandry generally prevalent. Bone-dust and other kinds of manure are used in the cultivation of turnips. The lands have been in great part thoroughly drained, and inclosed with hedges of thorn; the farm-buildings are substantial and well arranged, and all the more recent improvements in the construction of agricultural implements have been introduced. Considerable attention is paid to the rearing of live stock; the cattle are partly of the short-horned, and partly of the Highland breed, and the sheep mostly of the Leicestershire. The plantations are fir, intermixed with various kinds of forest-trees, the chief of which are beech, birch, and lime. The annual value of real property in Fogo is £5851. Caldra House, the principal mansion in the parish, is in the occupation of the proprietor, the Hon. Capt. Cathcart; and Charter Hall, a neat summer seat, built by the late Henry Trotter, Esq., of Morton Hall, is occasionally visited by the present Mr. Trotter, especially during the shooting season. Communication with the neighbouring market-towns and other places is afforded by good roads, of which the turnpike-road to Berwick, and to the suspension-bridge communicating with Northumberland, passes through the parish, and that from Coldstream to Dunse crosses its western extremity. Fogo is ecclesiastically in the presbytery of Dunse, synod of Merse and Teviotdale, and in the patronage of the Crown: the minister's stipend is £'219. 5. 10., with a manse, and a glebe valued at £18. 10. per annum. The church, situated on the banks of the Blackadder, which flows past the churchyard, is an ancient structure, repaired in 1755, and reseated in 1817, and is adapted for a congregation of '200 persons. With its surrounding gravestones, and the few cottages near, the venerable building presents a perfect specimen of sequestered rural beauty. The parochial school is wxU attended; the master has a salary of £'25. 13., with £20 fees, and a house and garden. Among the remains of antiquity in the parish may be mentioned the old house of Harcarse, situated on the borders of the parishes of Edrom and Swinton, and formerly belonging to the family of Hogg, now extinct. At the western extremity of the parish, at a place named Chesters, are vestiges of a Roman camp, the stones of which have been nearly all removed. To the south of the parish, in a marshy tract, some remains of a causeway have been discovered.