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the beauties of Raehills, of the privilege of inspecting the seat 
of such an ancient family as the Johnstones, and of the hospi- 
tality of their host. Mr John F. Cormack, solicitor, Locker- 
bie, seconded the vote of thanks. Mr Hope-Johnstone, in reply, 
said he had great pleasure in receiving the party and giving them 
an opportunity of viewing the place. — It being a fine day, they 
had had a_ pleasant drive, and that, he thought, was_ half 
the battle. He would be glad to see them back at Rae- 
hills on a future occasion. Mr Arnott, the secretary, pro- 
posed the election of Mr and Mrs Thomson, George Street, as 
members of the society. He said it had been greatly to the 
advantage of the society to come to Raehills, and he was sure 
they would be glad to avail themselves of Mr Hope-Johnstone’s 
kind invitation at another date. The two parties then took 
their seats in the brakes, hearty cheers being raised as they 
made their departure homewards. 
I3th September, 1908. 
IN CUMBERLAND. 
(From the Dumfries and Galloway Standard.) 
A party of twenty-two members of the Dumfries and Gallo- 
way Natural History and Antiquarian Society crossed the Solway 
on Saturday and paid a visit to the villages of Bowness and 
Burgh-by-Sands. As they steamed across the Viaduct, shortly 
before noon, a strong tide was flowing up the firth, under a 
brilliant sun. Alighting on the English shore, they turned their 
attention first to vestiges of the Roman Wall, which had its 
eastern end here and its western end seventy-two miles distant, at 
Wallsend, on Tyne. The remains are scanty, for the village, 
its church, the farm buildings and farm fences of the district, 
have all been built out of the quarry which the wall itself and 
the camp or station at Bowness furnished. Houses built within 
the last fifty years were pointed out for which the stones had 
been taken from the wall. Large part of the village sits within 
the space which the camp had occupied; and the fosse which 
marked its western boundary and part of a rampart at the north- 
eastern angle are still apparent, the latter being a mound in a 
