18 Anniversary Address. 



Henry Ker, Kelso ; and Mr Robert Brown, of Littlehough- 

 ton, was proposed for membership. 



After breakfast the party visited the church, where they 

 were met by Mr Bell, the Vicar. Besides being a church, 

 this, like some others in the district, had at one time been 

 also a place of defence, and accordingly the west end of it 

 forms a massive tower fitted to resist the attacks of invading 

 Scotch marauders. The date of the building is uncertain, 

 and probably it consists of portions erected at different times. 

 There is only one characteristic window, which is decorated, 

 and is apparently of the early part of the 14th century. The 

 arch between the nave and chancel is very narrow, and is 

 quite plain, having no moulding of any kind. There are no 

 pillars from which it springs, but it rests on a simple string 

 course which is continued along part of the walls. The arch 

 itself is covered with plaster, but Mr Bell stated that it is 

 built of rubble. The arch through which the nave is ex- 

 tended into -the tower is ornamented with plain mouldings, 

 and rises from simple abutments. 



Notwithstanding the rain which still continued to fall, 

 conveyances were procured and the party drove to Howick 

 village, from which they walked to the coast at Cullernose to 

 examine the instructive section of rocks exposed in the cliffs 

 from that point to Howick burn. Underneath the shelter of 

 an overhanging rock Mr Tate gave an interesting and lucid 

 description of the phenomena which we here observed, ex- 

 plaining that the section presents an epitome of the mountain 

 limestone formation of Northumberland, characteristic beds 

 of limestone, sandstone, shale, and coal alternating with each 

 other, many of them being fossiliferous. Within a few yards 

 to the north rises the rude semi-columnar basaltic mass of 

 Cullernose, from whose base the sea never recedes, and which 

 towers over the waters to a height of 120 feet. At low water 

 however a gritty sandstone is visibly underlying it. At this 

 point this basalt or whin-sill, as it is locally called, leaves the 

 coast, and runs across the country in a south-west direction. 

 At the junction of the basaltic mass with the stratified rocks. 



