Moolljopj Naturalists' fulis Club. 



May 15th, 1884. 



THE BLACK MOUNTAIN AND CWM-YOY. 



"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it 

 were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, 

 and partake in her rejoicing in heaven and earth. " — Milton. 



The first field meeting of the year is always interesting. It is a practical recog- 

 nition that all nature has awoke up from winter's rest and is once more in full 

 activity. The naturalist throws aside his everyday work, and his books, and says 

 to himself, now rather let us read 



" The Living Page whose every character 

 Delights and gives us wisdom. 



Not a tree 

 A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains 

 A folio volume. We may read and read 

 And read again, and still find something new ; 

 Something to please, and something to instruct." 



The Woolhope Club had invited the Malvern Club to meet them on this 

 occasion, and together, from the Barr's Court station, the naturalists proceeded to 

 Pandy. Here they were welcomed by General Gillespie, of Trewyn House, who 

 had kindly undertaken to be the guide for the day, aided by that excellent Welsh 

 scholar, the Rev. John Davies, of Pandy. 



At the station, " orders " were given for the immediate assault of the camp 

 situated on the brow of the first spur of the Black Mountain. The river Honddfl 

 was cro-ssed, to Trewyn House, and on the road, some stones were pointed out as 

 having probably rang to the clang of the Roman horses' hoofs some eighteen cen- 

 turies since. At Trewyn House, Mrs. Gillespie joined the visitors, on horseback, 

 and after a good three quarters of an hour's climb, at eleven o'clock, punctual to a 

 minute, the camp was reached. Here, seated on the entrenchments. Dr. Bull read 

 the following " Field Address " :— 



Ladies and Gentlemen of the Malvern and Woolhope Clubs, — We meet to-day 

 in one of the most interesting localities of the county. In this district the summit 

 of almost every hill is crowned by an entrenched camp— testifymg clearly to the 

 warlike character of the inhabitants ; whilst in the plains below, at intervals, are 

 large tumuli or barrows -" tump.s," as they are locally called— which bear sad 

 evidence to the thoughtful mind, of the fierce and bloody conflicts which have been 

 fought near them. Almost every village has the remains of a castle. Kilpeck, 



