\'t'2 NOTICK OF AN ANCII-NT SKA REACH. 



forty years since, all these places were separate farms ; but Little Billy, 

 Billy Hill, Ashfield, Bullerhead, and Pefferlaw, exist now only in name, 

 their farm-houses and cottages being levelled with the soil ; and the 

 rythme is worth preserving, if it was for no other purpose but to keep 

 the names from perishing also. 



16. " Hutton for auld wives, 



Broadmeadows for swine, 

 Paxton for drucken wives, 



And salmon sae fine. 

 Crossrig for lint and woo', 



Spittal for kail, 

 Sunwick for cakes and cheese, 



And lasses for sale." 



This rythme was taken down only a few weeks ago, from the recita- 

 tion of a girl of eight years of age in Chirnside. All the places men- 

 tioned are in Hutton parish ; but whether they are now famous for the 

 articles enumerated in the rythme, we have no means of ascertaining. 



17. " I, Willie Wastle, 



Stand firm in my Castle, 

 And a' the dogs in your town, 

 Will no pull Willie Wastle down." 



This is said to have been sent by T. Cockburn, Governor of Home 

 Castle, as an answer to a summons of surrender by Colonel George Fen- 

 wick, under the Protectorate of Cromwell, in 1650. It is very popular 

 among boys, who repeat it in a sort of game. 



Notice of an Ancient Sea Beach, near Dunglass. By the 

 Rev. ANDREW BAIRD. 



EVERY one now present must remember the tremendous gale of the 

 1 7th February last, a gale which raged with great fury throughout a large 

 extent of Scotland, but which was felt nowhere more severely than on 

 the coast of the parish of Cockburnspath and its neighbourhood. The 

 wind being from the north-east, and the rnoon about full, a very high tide 

 was the consequence, the highest, it was alleged, which had been known 

 for half a century. The effects of this extraordinary tide are still very 

 visible in many parts of the coast ; but nowhere, as far as I am aware, 

 was a more curious or interesting disclosure made by it than on that part 

 of the coast betwixt the mouths of Dunglass Dean and Billsdean, imme- 

 diately on the confines of Berwickshire. This was a bed or deposit of 

 gravel, about four feet in thickness, mixed with shells, bones, &c., and 

 firmly cemented by calcareous tuffa. It occurs at the base of a lofty and 



