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ancient limits of Kennell Park, an old hunting enclosure of the 
earlier feudal barons, and perhaps even of the line of the Comyns 
of Badenoch. The limits of the park can in most parts be 
pretty distinctly traced, and there is yet an old tradition current 
here, that the ruined East Wall of Kennell Park was the last 
spot that harboured a wild red deer in this district. It had been 
intended by some of the party to examine a remarkable deposit 
of porcelain earth near to the Belling. Cross, but time did not 
allow of this, and we can only exhibit a specimen. About 
thirty years ago the late Mr. William Hutton had some pottery 
made from this earth, but we do not think that the specimens 
were favourably received. The old cross at Belling is called 
Hawkhope Cross in Armstrong’s map of 1796. It is now over- 
thrown and lying in the heather, but its destruction is of recent 
date, for a greedy shepherd upset the ancient stone in the hopes 
of finding a treasure buried beneath it. Shortly after one of his 
own sheep was found drowned in the excavation he had made. 
We strongly recommend this incident to the editors of the next 
edition of Sir Henry Spelman’s Judgments. Not far hence, 
too, is the ancient hamlet or house of Wenhope, which is 
mentioned in 1279, as the abode of one ‘‘ Kmma,” who having 
been detected stealing in Bellingham, one market day, was then 
and there laid down by the townspeople, and her head chopped 
off, and no coroner’s inquest called, according to the prediliction 
of the judges of king Alexander the Third of Scotland, sitting 
at the Mote hill at Wark, in November of that year. 
A branch railway now leads up to the busy colliery village on 
the Bellingburn in a most wild mountain district. Here a plain 
but plentiful repast was provided by the owners of the colliery, 
and every attention was shewn in explaining the position of the 
coal-field, &ce. Before leaving the subject of the Kielder excur- 
sion we gladly avail ourselves of the opportunity of examining 
certain statements made by one of the most pleasing, if not the 
most accurate writers of the our day. In vol. I., p. 285, of his 
History of England, the late Baron Macaulay wrote the follow- - 
ing passage:—‘“ Within the memory of persons who are still 
living the sportsman who wandered in pursuit of game to the 

