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clear cool spring- of water named Kirsty's or Katie's Well, at 

 which the antiquaries on Saturday refreshed themselves, and 

 about which Mr Robert Reid has written in his charming- 

 way, seizing the true sentiment of the place. 



A short distance from the foot of the Pass the party 

 crossed the side of the hill by a path leading to Nether 

 Dalveen farm, where the rest of the party was to be joined, 

 visiting' on the way the monument to tlie memory of Daniel 

 M' Michael, which stands on the hillside facing the Dalveen 

 Pass at the place where he was shot, in a particularly callous 

 manner, in the year following the rescue in the Enterkin. 

 The monument was erected in 1836, but the tablet on the 

 front of it which bears the inscription was renewed about 

 thirty years ago by a former minister of the church at Scaur- 

 bridge. Daniel AP Michael lies buried in the churchyard at 

 Durisdeer. 



Those of the members who did not walk down the 

 Enterkin had an hour to spend in Leadhills, and advantage 

 was taken of the opportunity to examine a few of the 

 minerals found a short time ago in a new opening or drive 

 into the same ridge as the old Susanna mine, which was so 

 rich in rarities when worked. They comprised, among 

 others, the two rare lead sulphates, Leadhillite and what was 

 thought to be Lanarkite, which is the rarest of the minerals 

 occurring at Leadhills. \^ery good specimens were found 

 of Caledonite and Linarite, which are the sulphates of lead 

 and copper, and have very fine coloured crystals. They had 

 also been found in the mine, Leadhills Dod, associated with 

 chrysocolla and malachite. A very fine specimen of native 

 gold was also exhibited which had been found in a stream at 

 the bottom of the village. Another hour could have been 

 spent very profitably by the party among the minerals, but 

 as sixteen miles lay between them and the point where they 

 were to meet the walking party, a start had to be made. 

 The two parties met in the vicinity of Durisdeer, a locality 

 to which Burns has added a charming interest by making it 

 the scene of his song " Last May a braw wooer," and an 

 exceedingly pleasant run was made by way of Thornhill to 

 Dumfries, which was reached shortly after six o'clock. 



