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The thanks of the club were passed to His Grace the Duke 

 of Northumberland for the presentation of a reprint of 194 

 copies of the proceedings of the club for the year 1837. 



The places of meeting for next year were appointed to 

 be at — 



Greenlaw, on Thursday the 26th May. 



Cheviot, . . . . 30th June, 



Ancrum, . . . . 28th July. 



Bamburgh, . . . . 25th August. 



Berwick, . . . . 29th September. 



Business arrangements being completed, the members pro- 

 ceeded along the basaltic crags to the northward of Belford. 

 Late in starting their walk, and over a district often explored 

 before, they could not expect to observe much that was new. 

 Some time was spent in examining old foundations on the 

 top of the crag, probably of some religious house, but of this 

 there appears to be neither record nor tradition. From this 

 point a fine view presents itself ; to the eastward are seen 

 many of the most interesting objects on the coast — Lindis- 

 farne, Bamburgh Castle, the Fame Islands, and in the dis- 

 tance Dunstanburgh ; westward are the great sandstone 

 ridges forming the high moorlands of Northumberland, and 

 beyond these rise the tops of the Cheviot hills. Here too we 

 had an opportunity of tracing with the eye the northern part 

 of the winding range of the great basaltic whin-sill which 

 passes through the county ; commencing in the north at 

 Kyloe, where it stands up like a huge wall, it sweeps round 

 by Detchant to Belford, and thence wends eastward to Spin- 

 dleston and Bamburgh, and away into the Fame Islands. 



At Middleton the party examined, with much interest, a 

 characteristic example of a rock in situ, polished, grooved, 

 and striated. The basalt here is covered with a limestone 

 which is overlaid by a deposit of boulder clay. The lime- 

 stone is at present quarried, and from a considerable area of 

 its surface, the overlying deposit has been cleared. This sur- 

 face, immediately below the clay, is not merely smoothed, 

 but polished brightly like marble. It is besides grooved 



