to overlook a valley from a hill

De'il kens, answered Gapey; gin it binna i' the boddom o' Rob Bruce's wame.

[…] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.

At Lost Rosarys conclusion, in a purported conversation with publisher Donahoe, McCorry levels the same accusation at the secretaryess' herself: