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bog to explore its botany. The other went westwards^ fol- 

 lowing the Kaim till it run into the general level of the 

 country, and examining the Gilies nick which cuts through 

 it leading to an old church-yard. Thence across the Galahill, 

 where in days of old many a Scotchman met an untimely 

 fate, and from whence could be seen the Gallowslaw above 

 Coldstream, where the same severe justice was executed on 

 the English. Onwards to Shidlaw. On the top of the 

 wooded rocky knoll behind the farm-house is a tumulus, 

 which had evidently been explored at no distant date by 

 being cut into from one side, but no information could be got 

 as to the result. It is desirable that any discovery made in 

 it should be recorded in our transactions. Limestone was 

 worked experimentally near this spot, but it is believed not to 

 have been of such a quality as to render the quarry successful. 

 The next point of interest was the railway cutting to the 

 west of Carham station, where the chert limestone is ex- 

 posed — a rock which is found only in this district and in 

 small quantity near Dunse. It is a calcareous sandstone 

 converted into chert by heat. Returning eastwards along 

 the line of railway, the junction of this chert with the basalt 

 was examined, and the party diverged a little to the north of 

 the railway to inspect a large boulder, which Mr D. Milne 

 Home had declared to be clinkstone porphyry from the Che- 

 viots, but which some of the members were much inclined to 

 attribute to Hume Castle. Returning to the railway, it was 

 followed to Campiield when the gravel pits were examined, 

 the strata being much contorted ; and crossing the railway 

 the terraces and mounds were explored from which the place 

 derives its name. The mound is very remarkable, though it 

 is smaller than the moat at Hawick, or the mound opposite 

 Makerston. It is partly natural and partly artificial, though 

 the tradition that the material of it was taken from the spot 

 at its base, where there is now a small pond or bog, is not 

 implicitly to be believed. On the top of the mound, the 

 edges of some stones protruded which were suspiciously like 

 the sides and ends of a cist. At the parsonage on the arrival 



