260 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
Rauff Fenwyke lay there with a certeyne garrison.” Above 
Tarsett the moorlands come pretty close to the river bank, but 
all along there is a strip, often very narrow, of rich haugh land 
that separates the “fell ground” from the stream. Falstone, 
the next station, is a plain, modern looking village, considering 
its high antiquity. The Peel House or tower of the Lairds of 
Falstone, who of course were Robsons, is still standing, and 
bears the date of 1610; and the inn, which is being rapidly 
modernized, more resembles the old Scottish change-house than 
the modern Border hostelrie. Falstone is famous among anti- 
quaries as having afforded the important Anglo-Saxon inscription 
deciphered a few years ago by the Rev. Daniel Haigh, and now 
preserved in the museum at the old Castle. It is twice written 
on the stone (evidently a fragment of a cross), first in Roman- 
esque characters, and then in Runes, and runs as follows:— 
+ EOM@R THOE S@TTE Eomer set that after 
AEFTER HROETBERTITA | Hroetberht. A memorial 
BECUN AFTER EomMa@ after his Uncle. 
GEBIDAD DER SAULE, ‘Pray for his soul. 
After a brief stop at the Plashetts station the train passed on 
to Kielder, where a few of the party got out, but the great 
majority, nearly fifty in all, proceeded to Saughtree, on the very 
line of the Border, where they alighted. Under the guid- 
ance of Mr. F. Charlton, the President’s brother, the party 
turned to the left, leaping across the Tyne, which here forms a 
mere muddy ditch, and then proceeded to inspect the once 
celebrated Dead Water Well, a sulphurous spring of consider- 
able strength. Forty or fifty years ago this spring enjoyed a 
high reputation. A bath was built there, and peats duly placed 
near the house, which, however, was uninhabited. The indi- 
vidual who wished to take the bath first filled the boiler with 
water from the well, then heated this to a proper temperature? 
and closing the door, enjoyed a quiet and certainly a solitary 
bath. Unfortunately this primitive apparatus has been recently 
destroyed. From hence the party, re-crossing the railroad, 
ascended Pearl Fell, a steep hill rising nearly 2,000 feet 
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