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Mr. Weare concluded his deeply interesting address amidst the grateful 

 applause of all present. 



The President said he felt sure he was only expressing the feelings of all 

 around him, when he begged Mr. Weare to accept their best thanks for his 

 learned and able paper. It was a paper to be remembered. It did not merely 

 record facts with which they were familiar, but it suggested trains of thought 

 ■which they might follow out afterwards with pleasure and advantage. 



J. Lloid, Esq., of Huntington, said he thought it might add to the 

 interest of their proceedings if he mentioned that the names of the spot on 

 which they stood, and of the stream that flowed beneath were, like all Welsh 

 local names, remarkably significant. Craig y-pwll-ddu, or the rocky steep of 

 black pool : Bachoy, Bachowy, Bachhoyw-wy, little, rushing stream or water. 

 What could be more descriptive ? 



It was now necessary to think of returning. The time had expired. The 

 baskets, once emptied, had many of them been re-filled, this time not with 

 savoury viands, but with geological and botanical treasures. The fern-hunters 

 had been especially successful, and carried off with them many roots and 

 specimens. 



And here it should be mentioned that one of the party had been fortunate 

 enough a few days before to find the rare Asplenium viride on a part of the Black 

 Mountain, where it had not been before noticed, on the rooks near the top of 

 the most northerly point, called Lord Hereford's Knob, a few hundred yards 

 on the Radnorshire side. 



After loitering a short time on the banks of the Bachowy, where they 

 encountered the ooly slight shower of the day, the party at length assembled 

 once more on the temporary platform to await the train, which stopped specially 

 for them, as it had done in the morning, and left the scene of their day's 

 pleasure about six o'clock. 



The meeting at Craig-y-pwU-ddu must be recorded as a very successful 

 day in the annals of the Woolhope Club ; and it will ever be a bright spot in 

 the memory of all who were present — all the brighter, perhaps, since it seemed 

 so little likely at one time to be fine. 



