152 NOTICE OF AN ANCIENT SEA BEACH, 



About forty years since, all these places wore separate farms ; but 

 Little Billy^ Billy Hill, Ashfield, Bulhrhead, and FeJ/erlmv, exist now 

 only in name, their farm-houses and cottages being levelled with the 

 soil ; and the rhyme is worth preserving, if it was for no other pur- 

 pose but to keep the names from perishing also. 



IG. " Hutton for auld wives, 



Broadmeadows for swine, 

 Paxton for drucken wives, 



And salmon sae fine. 

 Crossrig for lint and woo', 



Spittal for kail, 

 Sunwick for cakes and cheese, 



And lasses for sale." 



This rhyme was taken down only a few weeks ago, from the recita- 

 tion of a girl of eight years of age in Chirnside. All the places 

 mentioned are in Hutton parish ; but whether they are now famous 

 for the articles enumerated in the rhyme, we have no means of ascer- 

 taining. 



17. "I, WiUie Wastle, 



Stand firm in my Castle, 

 A^id a' the dogs in your town. 

 Will no pull Willie Wastle down." 



This is said to have been sent by T. Cockburn, Governor of Home 

 Castle, as an answer to a summons of surrender by Colonel Greorge 

 Fenwick, under the Protectorate of Cromwell, in 1650. It is very 

 popular among boys, who repeat it in a sort of game. 



Notice of mi Ancient Sea Beach, near Dunglass. By the 

 Eev. Andeew Bated. 



Every one now present must remember the tremendous gale of the 

 17th February last, a gale which raged with great fury throughout a 

 large extent of Scotland, but which was felt nowhere more severely 

 than on the coast of the parish of Cockburnspath and its neighbour- 

 hood. The wind being from the north-east, and the moon about full, 

 a very high tide was the consequence, — the highest, it was alleged, 

 which had been known for half a century. The effects of this extra- 

 ordinary tide are stiU very visible in many parts of the coast ; but 

 nowhere, as far as I am aware, was a more ctu'ious or interesting 

 disclosure made "by it than on that part of the coast betwixt the mouths 

 of Dunglass Dean and Billsdean, immediately on the confines of Ber- 

 wickshire. This was a bed or deposit of gravel, about four feet in 



