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may well remind us of the true source of early Northumbrian 

 civilization and Christianity in the Scottish Bishop Aidan and 

 King Oswald, his interpreter's, noble, self-sacrificing efforts in 

 their missionary journeys for their people's welfare.* Who 

 does not recall the former glories of Lindisfarne, and the strange 

 fortunes, alive and dead, of the Patron Saint of Northern Eng- 

 land, on which our best writers, from the " Venerable " Monk of 

 Jarrow to Sir Walter Scott and Dean Stanley, have loved to 

 dwell, until they are now in all English-speaking lands, " fami- 

 liar in our mouths as household words ?" 



After dinner four gentlemen were elected members, and the 

 party then returned to Belford Station, reaching Newcastle about 

 ten o'clock, having spent a long and very pleasant day. 



The Fifth and last Field Meeting of the season was held, 

 according to a recent custom of the Club, outside our two North- 

 ern Counties, on "Wednesday and Thursday, September 8th and 

 9th, at Roseberry Topping, in Cleveland. Though we were not 

 a numerous party, only eleven members with one lady, who 

 proved to be an excellent pedestrian, yet we were more in 

 number than those who visited Whitby on a former occasion. 

 We had also the satifaction of a pleasant sociability, in which a 

 larger party must be necessarily deficient. Leaving the Central 

 Station at half -past eight o'clock, we reached Stokesley, by way 

 of Stockton and Preston Junction, about eleven ; when, under 

 the guidance of Mr. Markham Tweddell, the local historian and 

 poet, we started on our excursion, passing the parish church, a 

 modern structure, and then through a pleasant field-path towards 

 Roseberry. In ascending, we were unable, on account of recent 

 heavy thunder showers, to examine a picturesque and promising 

 ravine, which would no doubt have afforded interesting specimens 

 of the flora of the district, described by Mr. J. Gr. Baker. At the 

 head of the dene is a farm-house, called Harry-holm, immediately 

 below the conical summit, where the father of the celebrated 

 circumnavigator and discoverer, Captain Cook, was for some time 

 hind or farm-bailiff. The path now led us up the abrupt ascent 



*Bcrte. Eccles. Hist., B. III., c. iii., p. 112. 



