84 presidbn't's abdeess. 



do, to the doctrines of that celebrated German master. "We now 

 arrived at St. John's Chapel, and as soon as our friends could be 

 refreshed started off for Wear Head and the Cow Gate. At this 

 spot the celebrated Burtreeford Dyke crosses, and one of the 

 most interesting and instructive sections of the mountain lime- 

 stone rocks is exposed. Our friend and guide energetically con- 

 tended that because the trap or basaltic rock was regularly 

 intruded among the other beds, and had been faulted along with 

 them, it must have had a similar origin ; but the obvious reply 

 was, that although it seemed at this spot to form a regular 

 stratum, yet not far distant especially in Teesdale it put on a 

 very different appearance, and since it there encloses large frag- 

 ments of the other rocks and otherwise breaks them up into 

 dislocated masses, it must have been thrust up through them at 

 a later date than their formation. 



It had been arranged to walk to St. John's, and the weather 

 being very fine the scenery of the upper valley was much en- 

 joyed. A late dinner at St. John's brought this day's pleasant 

 excursion to the higher part of Weardale only too rapidly to an 

 end. 



On the morrow a prospect of fine weather enabled us to start 

 for a short ramble up Irishope Burn on the south side of the 

 valley. Here we climbed along a steep mountain road higher 

 and higher, gathering such common wild sub-alpine flowers as 

 the little runlets afforded, but detecting nothing rarer than the 

 beautiful Grass of Parnassus. On reaching the height of nearly 

 two thousand feet most of our companions returned, the rest 

 pursued a devious course o'er bog and heather, stopping now and 

 then to gather the beautiful rosy ripe fruit of the Knoutberry 

 and enjoy its peculiar acid taste. Only two other good plants 

 rewarded our search, Sedum mllosum and Saxifraga stellaris, 

 neither of which are so common in Weardale as in the adjoining 

 valleys of the Tyne and Tees. A hasty repast and a rapid drive 

 to Stanhope ended our most enjoyable visit to Weardale. 



The Fifth Field Meeting was held on the 3rd of September, 

 at Barrasford and ChoUerton, IS'orth Tyne. A considerable 



