8 I'B.ESIDENTIAL ADDKESS, 



and the circles on the other side were fast becoming obliterated 

 by wind and rain and frost. It was evident that these circles 

 must have been covered up from the very time they were made, 

 whatever the agency, and that in a few years they will all have 

 disappeared. This spot has been so well described by mem- 

 bers of the Berwickshire Club, that reference must be made to 

 their Transactions. 



Regaining our conveyance at the pits, we visited the village 

 and castle of Ford. Those who liked interiors went inside, the 

 rest were invited by the gardener to walk round it, which they 

 did, and admired the evergreens not destroyed, and the view of 

 Flodden, and the White Peacock with the hen sitting on her nest 

 close to the path. Thence to Etal, the only place where more 

 than a cup of cold water could be obtained all day. This model 

 village appears to' be rather overpraised. The majestic ruin of 

 the old Castle, to the south, close to TiU, covered with Ivy par- 

 tially destroyed by last winter's frost, was the most picturesque 

 bit of masonry seen during our Comhill visit. An ugly shaped, 

 barn-looking place was pointed out to us as the Kirk, close to 

 the old ruin, and sadly out of place and keeping with the other 

 surroundings. In the evening we sauntered by the banks of the 

 Tweed ; admired the acres of Ox-eye Daisies, with discs the size 

 of a crown piece or larger, crossed the Tweed bridge, strolled 

 through Coldstream, knew we were far from smoky Tyne by the 

 swarms of bats that flitted on leathery wings overhead, and, re- 

 gaining our Inn, prepared ''for fresh fields and pastures new" 

 on the morrow. 



On the second day we started early for Bowmout Water and 

 Yetholm, Eoxboroughshire. Some of the party desiring to sec 

 Learmouth Bog, we turned aside fi-om oiu- direct course. "Wc 

 found the bog had been thoroughly drained, and the rare Marsh 

 Pern {Lastrcea thelypteris) which formerly grew here, and several 

 other rare bog plants, had been completely destroyed. Peat, Eab- 

 bits. Sheep, and Eye, one old Aller, and a few plants trying to 

 live on were all that we could see. "We crossed the border here 

 without difficulty. "We did not require to be told that we were 

 in Scotland, for the exaction of a Scotch body, who demanded 



