106 Strathspey Fencibles at Dumfries in 1795. 



He was shocked at the treatment of the men, and concludes 

 that it afforded " another striking instance of the necessity of 

 paying- a due regard to the feehng of soldiers, and of treating 

 them as men of good principles, whose culpability may pro- 

 ceed more from mistaken notions than from depravity. It 

 also affords a striking instance of the paramount call, on 

 those under whose direction they are placed in their native 

 country, that their treatment be not such as to loosen and 

 destroy those finer feelings and render the people desperate, 

 regardless of their own character, disaffected to the Govern- 

 ment, and transplant a spirit of hatred and revenge, in place 

 of the fidelity, confidence, and attachment of other times." 



The Strathspey Fencibles after leaving Musselburgh was 

 quartered for varying periods in the towns of Dundee, Ayr, 

 Edinburgh, Irvine, and, finally, Edinburgh, where it was- 

 disbanded in April, 1799. 



Such is the history of these exciting couple of days in 

 June, 1795, and their tragic consequences. There is one 

 man whose opinion we would all like to have heard on these 

 two incidents. He, apparently never recorded it. Yet what 

 would we not have given to have seen the glint in those- 

 wonderful eves when he heard the facts recounted? 



27th November, 1914. 



Chairman — G. Macleod Stewart, V.P. 



Amber and Jet in Ancient Burials : Their Significance. 



By Nona Lebour, Corbridge-on-Tyne. 



What could have been the reason that primitive man 

 and his descendants, down to the present day, found such 

 wonderful properties and virtues in the substances, Amber 

 and Jet? Why have they been so frequently discovered in 

 ancient graves of Palaeolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age 

 periods, in Roman urns, in Greek tombs, and in different 

 parts of Europe, and even as far as China, the substances 

 being sometimes found together side by side, often alter- 



