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Changes of Channel in the Solway. — In Part vi. Trans. 

 Cumb. Assoc, are maps showing the changes in the Solway 

 channels between the years 1841 and 1877. The channels E. of 

 Bowness are not shown in the Admiralty Chart of the Solway 

 published at the latter date ; but on comparing the older chart 

 with the Ordnance maps showing the Scottish and English shores 

 of that estuary, and dated respectively i86t and 1869, we see the 

 following variations. In the chart 1837-41 the channel of the 

 Eden between Rockcliff and Glasson keeps close to the southern 

 shore. In the Dumfriesshire map of 1861 the Eden is seen 

 making directly for the Scottish side, and effecting a junction with 

 the Esk about half a mile S. of Tordoff Point. While in the 

 Cumberland map of 1869 the Eden keeps as closely to the English 

 shore as in 1841. In the survey of the coast published in the 

 "Gentleman's Magazine" in 1748, and quoted by Hutchinson, 

 (Vol. ii. p. 401,) it is remarked: — "The river Eden has of late 

 years kept almost close under the Scottish shore; but its 

 course is constantly varying." This variability in the Solway 

 channels is so well known that it is somewhat surprising to read in 

 the "Carlisle Journal" of September 5th (1884), that at a Special 

 Meeting of the Eden Fishery Board, a letter from the Home 

 Secretary had been read in which he suggested that the boundary 

 line in the Solway should be the middle of the channel at low 

 water — scarcely a " scientific frontier," under the circumstances. 

 With the existing relations between England and Scotland, it is 

 surely as absurd to have different fishery relations on the northern 

 and southern sides of the Solway as it would be on those of the 

 Humber, 



T. V. H. 



Ancient Lake Dwellings in Galloway. — Articles in the 

 ' Times " of September Sth and i6th describe investigations among 

 the crannoges of Galloway. The following remarks, however, are 

 not intended to serve as an abstract of the articles in question, but 

 as notes of matters likely to afford useful hints to future explorers 



