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original stone building of so early a date remained, though pro- 

 bably it existed in the chancel and remains of the nave. At any 

 rate there was no trace of an earlier stone building, and probably 

 the first structure was a temporary one of wood, and the lower 

 portions of the present buildings not much later. The convent- 

 ual buildings are now used as the Lord Crewe's Arms Inn, and 

 were the famous seat of the Forsters, who lost their possessions 

 after the rising in 1715. In the garden of the Inn the old clois- 

 ters can easily be traced. Thanks having been accorded to the 

 Rev. Gr. M. Gurley, the Eev. W. Featherstonhaugh, and to John 

 F. Spence, the party walked through the woods south of the 

 Derwent, visited the works of the Derwent Lead Mining Com- 

 pany, and returned by way of Hunstanworth to dine at Blanch- 

 land. Ml'. T. Thompson exhibited a young Hawfinch, which 

 had killed itself against a window at Gribside, the first instance 

 on record of the Hawfinch breeding in Durham or Northumber- 

 land. 



The Sixth and Final Field Meeting was held on 24th of 

 September, winding up at our old and favourite trysting place, 

 Marsden Rock. Leaving the train at Hebburn, a visit under 

 the guidance of Mr. J. Hunter was paid to the Hebburn Quarry, 

 where many specimens of boulders on the top of the sandstone and 

 ice-scratched rocks in siiu were noticed ; and fine fossil plants had 

 been exposed in the quarry. Thence Rede's Rurn was followed 

 and Rede's Well, now in a pitiably neglected condition, but 

 which it is hoped will soon be fenced in and cared for, out of 

 reverence to the memory of the grand old Saxon saint. Thence 

 the party proceeded to visit St. Paul's Church, Jarrow, which 

 was shewn by the Rev. E. Liddell, and is remarkable as one of the 

 oldest religious edifices existing in England, dating undoubtedly 

 from the period of the Heptarchy. The chancel and tower have 

 been well preserved with all their original features. Thence the 

 party proceeded to South Shields, and inspected the remarkable 

 Roman remains preserved in the Public Library, especially the 

 unique Aramaic sepulchral inscription, the only record in the 

 ancient language of Syria ever exhumed in "Western Europe. 



