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enclose Arkengarthdale and the head streams of Swaledale — 

 the lake district was concealed in mist. We found no definite 

 trace of a Roman station on the site where they are marked on 

 the Ordnance map, but confused heaps of stones, indicative of 

 an old quarry. There was a small, almost square, camp dis- 

 tinctly visible, close to the road before reaching the West- 

 morland boundary, and a stone not far from this camp, 

 surrounded by an iron railing, recording some event unknown 

 to us. The day was fine, and the wildness and loneliness of 

 Stainmoor gave perfect enjoyment — such enjoyment as it is 

 impossible to meet with elsewhere than in such elevated, 

 moorland situations. 



The Fifth Meeting was held at Lanchester on Wednesday, 

 the 21st of September, and proved to be a very interesting and 

 pleasant one, although the attendance was only small. The 

 party left IS'ewcastle at 9.42, and walked from Consett under 

 the guidance of Mr. W. Riven across the fields to Crook Hall, 

 Iveston, and Greencroft Woods. The Roman Camp at Lanches- 

 ter was then visited, — a very interesting relic, notable for its 

 six gates, its baths, forum, and other adjuncts, familiar to us in 

 the excavated camps on the line of the Roman Wall. The same 

 pains, however, have not as yet been taken in the laying bare of 

 the Lanchester camp. A visit to the church concluded the day's 

 proceedings. 



The Sixth and last Meetikg of the season took place at Tyne- 

 mouth and North Shields on Thursday, the 6th of October. The 

 members were met at the JS'orth Shields Station by the Mayor 

 of Tynemouth (Aid. J. !F. Spence), and as a commencement of 

 the day's proceedings went under his guidance to the Fish Quay, 

 where they had the opportunity of examining the ''refuse" of 

 some of the deep-sea trawlers, consisting of a rich haul of zoo- 

 phytes, star-fishes, echini, barnacles, medusae, — in fact a hetero- 

 geneous jumble of deep-sea life, such as the late Edward Forbes 

 tells us is classed by the Shetland fishermen under the two 

 great heads of "pushen and combustibles." Thence by way of 



