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Haugh, Rotten Burn, &c.—seems to indicate that the Norse 
invaders (who have left us relics of their presence in our names 
of Campsie Fells, Goatfell, Brodick, Ailsa, Cumbrae, Busbie, 
Lockerbie, &c.) had settled in Avondale and Clydesdale, as well 
as in Nithsdale and the Lake Country. 
Near the base of the Ha’-hill, at the corner of the garden, on a 
spot once called Abbeysteads, is the site of the old church, the 
Forest Kirk, in which Wallace was in 1297 chosen Warden of 
Scotland. The name of Carluke, which seems to have been 
applied to the town or parish about the fourteenth century, is 
supposed to have been derived from the dedication of the church 
to St. Luke, but that view is somewhat doubtful. We may at 
least be certain that the monks of this now almost forgotten abbey 
carefully cultivated their clearing in Kirk Forest, and it is pro- 
_bable that the modern garden covers the site of the ancient one. 
After visiting the garden and hot-houses, the party proceeded to 
the castle, where they were most hospitably entertained by the 
instructions of Sir William Hozier. They aiterwards walked to 
Ayr Road Station, on the opposite side of the Clyde valley, and 
from thence returned by rail to the city. 
DovuGatston AND BatpERNock, 25th March, 1893,—The day 
was a most charming one, bright and warm, with a very slight 
breeze at intervals, and, indeed, more suggestive of June than 
March. Thirty-seven members and friends were present. including 
three photographers. 
Dougalston policies are situated within a mile of the town of 
Milngavie, and in that portion of the parish of East or New 
Kilpatrick which at one time formed part of Stirlingshire but has 
now been transferred to Dumbartonshire. The estate formerly 
belonged to a family of Grahams of the Montrose line ; but it was 
_ sold in 1767 to John Glassford, an eminent Glasgow merchant of 
last century, after whom Glassford Street was named, and in whose 
mansion of Shawfield Prince Charlie held his court during his 
flying visit to our city in 1745. It may be of interest to mention 
5 that Mr. Glassford is described by Smollett in Humphrey Clinker, 
and that his tombstone may be seen and read from the street at 
the south-west corner of the Ramshorn (St. David’s) Churchyard, 
