Waterloo Monument, Peniel Heugh

Into the Scottish Borders, and to Peniel Heugh—a modest hill of 237 metres, though it carries itself as if it were Everest. It is, I am told, a volcanic plug of olivine microgabbro, which sounds far grander than the dark lump it appears to be above the village of Ancrum.

At its summit stands the Waterloo Monument, a 150-foot column of whinstone so extravag ...

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