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of cultivation at our hands, is that in which Mr. Carr has laboured, 

 namely, the study of the remains of the old languages of the North 

 of England, with a view of advancing the science of Philology, by 

 the construction of an Archaic and Orthographical map of North- 

 umberland; a work which will have a peculiar interest and value. 



It now only remains for me to bring into one short review the 

 names of those places, all of them famous, at least, in local story, 

 at which, in our wanderings, we have not un thoughtfully lingered, 

 or by which we have not unregretfully passed. Thus the Roman 

 Wall has been traced from the North Tyne to the Tippald, and 

 its stations of Cilurnum, Procolitia, Borcovicus, Vindolana, ^sica 

 Magna, and Amboglanna, and their intermediate castra, explored. 

 Thus we have viewed the romantic Peel of Staward, the Castles 

 of Thirlwell, Langley, Haughton, and Hexham, with its venerable 

 Abbey; Dilston, Prudhoe, and others, each contributing its own 

 interesting portion to the mass of historic associations that crowd 

 the dale of Tyne. Thus we have seen the ruins of Morpeth, Bothal, 

 and Mitford Castles, and Newminster Abbey, on the Wansbeck ; 

 and the dilapidated remains of Dunstanborough and Warkworth. 

 We have visited, too, the restored strongholds of Alnwick and of 

 Bamborough, now the abodes of wealth, learning, and charity. 

 We have, moreover, rambled in kindly sociality, and with mutual 

 instruction, through the sylvan and picturesque scenery of Gibside, 

 and of the delightful denes of Castle Eden, Dipton, Hazleden, 

 Horden, Rjhope, and Whittle. We have, lastly, been down to 

 the swampy basin of Prestwick, of ornithological fame, and 

 ascended to the heights of the rainy but beautiful and health- 

 giving Gilsland. 



I have now laid before the members of the Club, I trust, suffi- 

 cient extrinsic evidence of our having hitherto followed a good 

 path; and I congratulate them that, at least in the account 

 rendered of their discoveries, ample intrinsic proof has been ad- 

 duced that their labours have not been hitherto in vain; and yet 

 it must not be concealed that the Club is in reality numerically 

 weak in workers ; for the number of discoverers and other con- 

 tributors to our stock of papers is only about the tenth part of the 

 the whole number of members, namely, 150. 



