CARLOPS, a village, in the parish of Linton,
county of Peebles; containing 153 inhabitants. This
village is irregularly built on the banks of a rivulet falling
into the North Esk. It is chiefly inhabited by persons
employed in weaving cotton for the manufacturers of
Glasgow and Paisley, and coal and limestone are wrought
in the immediate neighbourhood. Carlops is a popular
abbreviation of Carlinj^'s Luiips, localities in the vicinity,
so named iu allusion to acts of a witch of former times,
who is said to have furnished to Allan Ramsay the
character of Mause in the Gentle Shepherd, the scenery of
which poem is in the neighbourhood. Near the village
is a rock of freestone, impending over a narrow glen; it
is called Harbour Craig, and, in this sequestered place,
has a strikingly romantic appearance.