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interest in the Castle were the pictures, and also Hiram Power's 

 statue of the Greek Slave, and the malachite tables, which were 

 exhibited in the Great Exhibition of 1851. At one time most 

 of the windows were plain sash windows, but the present Duke 

 has been gradually replacing these by windows more in keeping 

 with the building itself. The entrance for carriages passes 

 through the Castle. The great hall, or, as it is called, the 

 Baron's Hall, has been much spoilt as to its proportions, by the 

 raising of the floor some four feet, making it more a long wide 

 gallery than a hall. Here are Queen Mary's Candlestick, Queen 

 Elizabeth's Dressing Case, and a case belonging to Mary Queen 

 of Scots. The kitchen is about the most perfect part of the 

 Castle. It is of a very massive character, with a stone vault, 

 and a tower in the form of a lantern rising from the stone roof. 

 It is square below and octagonal above. There is a passage all 

 round in the thickness of the wall, level with the sills of the 

 windows, which were partly for purposes of defence, but also led 

 to two garde-robes in the thickness of the wall. Having viewed 

 all there was to be seen in the Castle, by the kind permission of 

 Mr. "Westcott, the head gardener, we sauntered through the 

 gardens, which were in better flower than I ever remember see- 

 ing them at this season of the year. They are generally retarded, 

 in order to look their best upon the advent of the family in the 

 autumn. 



Beturning to the Queen's Head, Staindrop, after a well-earned 

 dinner we reached "Winston Station, and arrived in Newcastle, 

 whence each dispersed to our respective homes, well pleased 

 with our day's outing. 



For the account of our fourth and fifth Field Meetings I am 

 indebted to our Secretary, Mr. Howse, who has given me the 

 following, as I was myself unavoidably absent from both. 



The Fourth Field Meeting was held at Boroughbridge, in 

 the central valley of the North Biding, and near the junction of 

 the Ure and Swale, a comparatively flat district, between the 

 Carboniferous Limestone region on the west, and the Jurassic 

 Cleveland Hills on the east. It is a woodland, park -like stretch 



