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address on the character and history of the Priory and its 

 founder. 



After this, your memhers were asked to share in the liheral 

 luncheon, which had been arranged for by the forethought of 

 this Archaeological and Ecclesiastical party in the Tillage School, 

 and which was fully appreciated after our early morning start. 



The inner man refreshed, the afternoon was devoted to natu- 

 ralising. Mr. "Watts guided the party to the front of the cliffs, 

 and lucidly explained the Geology of the Island and the neigh- 

 bouring coast. Then the botanists and zoologists scattered over 

 the island. Mr. "Watts' geological notes and botanical list are 

 appended. Tour President was pleased to ascertain, not only 

 that the Eider Duck, so interwoven with the legendary history 

 of St. Cuthbert and Lindisfarne, is rapidly increasing, but that 

 the beautiful Shieldrake still is able to rear its young in some 

 sequestered haunts. The purple Sandpiper may be occasionally 

 seen, and two parties of the Rock Pipit, probably broods of this 

 vear, were observed. The Gulls, Terns, and Guillemots, which 

 breed on the neighbouring Fames, had for the most completed 

 their domestic duties and gone out to sea. 



Towards sunset, again at low water, the party drove back 

 across the sands, just in time for the last train, without further 

 mishap than the fall of a coachman, who had freely imbibed, 

 from the box into a salt pool. Thoroughly had all enjoyed 

 themselves, and they returned with feelings of compassion, such 

 as " a superior person" might indulge in, for those members of 

 the club who had been deterred from joining the expedition by 

 the morning's outlook. 



A Dat's Ramble among Rock and Eloweks op Holt Island. 



Geological Notes. — Sandstone below limestone on north side 

 of island, at base, banded red and white or yellow, one foot ; 

 carbonaceous seam \ down cliff-face from top eastwards, to -J- 

 westwards. Three caves, first much destroyed ; second, with 

 arch and window, is largest ; third, deep, but narrow, with in- 

 vasion of pebbles. Eastwards rises on sea-floor a dark shale 



