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a colossal creature from the ruins of Nineveh, lying at rest, with 

 the head partly defaced, yet looking tranquilly over the wide and 

 troubled ocean before it. 



The different parties reunited at Cockburnspath in time for 

 dinner, to which, after their long and interesting rambles, they 

 did ample justice. After dinner, several mountain limestone 

 fossils, recently obtained from Alnwick Moor, were shown by 

 the President, among which were Avicula Verneulii and Ptero- 

 nites angustatus ; and also stems of Uiodendron ornatissimum, 

 with finely sculptured fruit-scars, measuring 15 inches in cir- 

 cumference. A rare specimen of this singular fossil tree, ob- 

 tained from the same locality, shows that the mode of branching 

 was dichotomous, that the leaf-scars were rhomboidal like those 

 of Lepidodendron, and that the fruit-scars were in vertical rows 

 on opposite sides of the stem and branches, so that the branches 

 and fruit-scars were on the same plane. 



The loveliness of the morning, the beauty of the scenery at 

 Abbey St. Bathans, and the associations around Grant's-House 

 as the birth-place of the Club, ought to have tempted a larger 

 number of Members to assemble on the 20th of July than 

 actually met. There were present, — the President, Dr. Johnston, 

 Mr. Selby, Mr. Jerdan, and Mr. Elliot ; the Club was favoured 

 with the company of Mr. Hardy of Penmanshiel, Mr. Stevenson 

 of Dunse, and Mr. Thomas Tate of Kneller Hall College. The 

 party proceeded at once across the high ground towards Abbey 

 St. Bathans. The day was bright, the breeze refreshing, and 

 the conversation agreeable; otherwise these moorlands would 

 have appeared dreary ; naked hills succeeding each other, with 

 few plants of interest, and with scarcely any trees or human 

 habitations to break the monotony of the scene. Greywacke 

 rocks were beneath, which on decomposing form a clayey soil 

 retentive of moisture, but the vertical position of the beds helps 

 the natural drainage. Before descending to the valley of Monnie- 

 nut, Erica cinerea was observed in great beauty and luxuriance ; 

 but its relative the common heath, Calluna vulgaris, had not 

 yet begun to flower. Luzula congesta was also noticed. Passing 

 by Butterdean and Quixwood, the party reached the valley of 

 the Whiteadder, where the sequestered and peaceful Abbey St. 

 Bathans reposes enclosed by hills, amidst verdant woods and 



