206 Fietp MEETINGS. 
even to this day—so says local tradition, beneath the great 
block of whinstone which was put up to commemorate the 
battle. 
The bridge crossed, the party moved through New- 
Galloway south along the western shores of Loch Ken. A 
little way below the village a quarry was examined where 
the junction of granite and whinstone had been laid bare. 
The outer masses of granite showed much variety of texture 
and colour, whilst the whinstones had been changed to harder, 
almost crystalline rock by the tremendous heat of the molten 
granite—in fact it was ‘‘ baked whinstone.’’ Time was now 
pressing, and signs of coming rain caused the party to aban- 
don the leader’s original intention of a walk from New-Gallo- 
way Station along the railway and banks of Dee to near Loch 
Stroan, and thence over the Cree Hill to Drumwhill, a place 
suggestive in its structure and setting to a Swiss chalet. 
Instead, the whole party motored direct to Drumwhill, passing 
over the “‘ Raiders ”’ 
near Woodhall Loch. 
At Drumwhill Professor G. F. Scott-Elliot welcomed the 
party to tea. 
Brig and the almost equally famous one 
Dr. Burnett, the president of the Geographical Branch, 
moved a vote of thanks to both host and hostess, and the 
hearty response showed the deep gratitude of the party for 
the generosity of the dwellers at Drumwhill. 
After tea, in spite of wet grass, most of the party fol- 
lowed the indefatigable leader down to the shores of Woodhall 
Loch. Here the Professor pointed out the rings of plants 
that encircled—ring enclosing ring—the whole loch. Along 
the water’s edge lay the broad-leaved water lilies, then a 
broad band of bulrush with the water lapping between the 
stiff bayonet-like blades; another ring of marsh plants lay 
along this edge—the marsh bean and others—then a broad 
band of marsh grasses, cotton grasses, &c., with bog-myrtle 
near the edge of the flat. On the slope meadow-sweet, rushes, 
great wild valerian, marsh thistles, and other plants brought 
the rings up to the woodland types where willows and birch 
and other plants made the first stand for firmer ground. Scots 
