& peesident's addkess. 



and neatness of the whole place, and the care which is taken 

 that the water with which the ponds (sixty in numher) are 

 supplied, together with all manner of contrivances, which you 

 notice at every turn, prove beyond doubt that it must have 

 been the work of years to bring this successful hatchery to its 

 present state of perfection. The question of these fisheries 

 from other points of view was so ably and exhaustively dealt 

 with by my predecessor in office, Professor Brady, that I should 

 only be repeating in a much feebler manner what has been 

 already so well said, were I to attempt to touch it. Moreover, 

 a copy of his address will appear in our printed Transactions. 



After spending several very pleasant hours examining all the 

 wonders of Mr. Armistead's hatchery, we were invited into 

 the house, and most hospitably entertained to a sumptuous 

 lunch, to which, having breakfasted early and driven eight or 

 ten miles through the clear mountain air, we were all ready to 

 do ample justice to ; but as we sat and talked of many things, 

 time flew apace, and all too soon. After looking through their 

 lovely garden, and noting the luxuriant manner in which many 

 varieties of flowering shrubs, trees, and flowers were growing 

 which barely exist with us on the banks of the Tyne, we had 

 to bid our kind friends farewell, and drove on to visit the ruins 

 of l^ew Abbey, often called Sweetheart Abbey. 



This lovely old ruin was founded about the year 1275 for 

 the Cistercian Monks by Devorgilla Baliol, a lady distinguished 

 for her piety and munificence. She died in 1289 at the age of 

 eighty, and was buried in the Abbey. Her husband, John 

 Baliol, died twenty years before her, and was buried in Tees- 

 dale, but his sorrowful widow had his heart embalmed and 

 casketted in a " coffyne of evorie," which she kept beside her 

 until the Abbey was finished, when it was built into the wall 

 oyer the high altar. When she died this precious relic of her 

 never-forgotten lord was taken from its stone enclosure and laid 

 upon her bosom, so that the hearts which true love united might 

 moulder away together. This circumstance, it is said, caused 

 the name of Dulce Cor, or Sweetheart, to be given to the 

 Abbey. It is built of Permian red-sandstone, and is of the First 



