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uing almost wild on the hills of the district, and most probably 

 the remains so frequent in the Irish bogs and crannoges were 

 from similar races, or varieties of them. Bones of the same 

 animal occur in other localities. I place on the table bones 

 from Tibbers — Dowalton Loch, whence those sent to Professor 

 Owen were named as above — a specimen found when digging 

 the site for the gasometer in this town of the same character ; 

 and you have beside them the analogous bones of a Shetland 

 cow killed at Jardine Hall a few months since. If the latter 

 was subjected to the influence of peat for a few months it might 

 also bear the name of Bos longifroiis. 



Another remarkable incident is the finding of a large 

 quantity of oyster-shells mingled with these animal bones. 

 In the refuse-heaps of equal age — at Dowalton — and in the 

 lake dwellings, we have almost always a certain proportion 

 of marine shells, edible species, showing that these were a 

 favourite and national article of food. "Wliere the localities 

 are near the sea this is not difficult to understand, and the 

 presence of fish bones also indicated that the sea was largely 

 used ; but at Tibbers, where a few shells of the common 

 whelk, Buccinura unclatum, and the common clam, Peden 

 varius, were found among the oysters, the nearest sea where 

 these could be obtained is very distant, and we have difficulty 

 in accounting for so many being now found. 



Leaving the remains of Tibbers, the beautiful gi-ouuds of 

 Drumlanrig Castle were walked over under the conduction 

 of Mr. Mackintosh. It was just after those severe nights of 

 frost, and most of the more tender plants and vegetables 

 were much injured. Acres of rhododendrons, which, in a 

 few days, would have exliibited a splendid mass of bloom, 

 now half-opened, were entirely checked. The thermometer 

 at Drumlanrig gardens stood so low on the 30th and 31st 

 May as 26° and 25°. This low temperature extended over a 

 great portion of Scotland, and also southward, varying one or 

 two degrees. At Jardine Hall, on the same two last nights 



