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antiquarian interest reported to exist in it. In connection with 

 Holywood, he gave the results of a personal examination of the 

 hollows found on several of the stones of the Druidical Circle, 

 which are stated by Sir James Simpson to be the only cup mark- 

 ings that exist in Dumfriesshire. On the enormous boulder at the 

 south-west corner the cups are numerous, and all on the north and 

 north-east side. Eight of these are on the sloping underneath 

 surface, and are as fresh and distinct as if they had been cut two 

 instead of two thousand or more years ago. They are four inches 

 in diameter, three inches deep, and very finely shaped. On the 

 surface of the north stone there are two ; and on the north-east 

 corner stone a considerable number on the surface, in chains, and 

 some connected. On the small stone at the side (possibly a frag- 

 ment of the larger stone) there is a distinct and certain chain of 

 cups. Moffat and Kirkpatrick-Juxta were mentioned as specially 

 rich in forts and moats, and in the latter parish 1 01 tumuli are 

 recorded. Special notice was also bestowed on the range of 

 camps, forts, and tumuli at Burnswark, in the parish of Hoddam, 

 the writer observing that these were in themselves sufficient to 

 render Dumfriesshire famous for its antiijuities. The conclusion of 

 the whole matter (he said in concluding) is rather startling, the 

 figures are so large. Excluding such small matters as cairns, 

 thorns, holy wells, " loups," defunct villages, &c., the catalogue 

 gives, as having actually existed and still to be traced — Camps, 42; 

 forts, 128 ; moats, 9 ; standing stones and Druidical Circles, 36 ; 

 Roman roads, 5 ; tumuli, 306 ; churches, chapels, and other 

 religious edifices, 57 ; castles, 37 ; towers, 44 ; battlefields, 7. 



III. — Some IVotable Trees of the Upper Annandale District. 

 By Mr John T. Johnstone, of Moffat. 



Perhaps the two best known show trees of the district are an 

 oak and a Scots fir, and these are remarkable, not so much for 

 their size, which is considerable, as for their connection and associa- 

 tion with the name of a well-known minister of divinity and 

 naturalist of the last century, viz., the Rev. Dr Walker, F.R.S.E., 

 minister of the Parish of Moffat from 1762 to 1783, and at the 

 same time also Professor of Natural History in the University of 

 Edinburgh. 



The Scots fir is known locally as the " Pouch Tree," from the 

 fact that the Rev. Dr is said to have carried it from Edinburi^h to 



