190 Anniversary Address. 



After dinner, a paper " On the Early History of tlie Mon- 

 astery of St. Ebba and the later Priory of Coldingham," by 

 Mr. John Stuart, F.S.A., Edinburgh, was read. The Mem- 

 bers proposed at the last Meeting were elected, and the 

 following were nominated, viz. : — the Rev. Edward Home, 

 Home Field, Coldingham ; Mr. Frederick Roy, younger, 

 Nenthorn, Kelso ; and Dr. William Campbell, Dunse. 



The thanks of the Club are specially due to Messrs. M^Gall 

 and Ronton for supplying conveyances for the use of some of 

 the Members ; to Mr. Wilson for his guidance and informa- 

 tion on various subjects worthy of note ; and to Mr. Herriott 

 for his kind assistance in forwarding the objects of the Club. 

 The day proved all we could desire for such a ramble, and 

 the party separated with hearty wishes soon to meet again. 



The third Field Meeting took place at Hownam on the 

 S7th July, among the porphyritic hills which are an exten- 

 sion of the Cheviot range into Roxburghshire. This secluded 

 spot is distant from railways, yet there was a large assemblage 

 of Members, there being forty-five present. In going to 

 Kelso by train, some cut corn was observed on the banks of 

 the Tweed near Fireburn Mill ; so early a commencement of 

 harvest has not been known since the year 1826. At Kelso, 

 conveyances awaited to take us to the place of meeting ; en 

 route we halted at Linton to look at the church, which is 

 picturesquely situated upon a hill of sand, said to have been 

 riddled through a sieve by two sisters in order to save the 

 life of a brother ; and at the last sieve-full the riddle broke. 



On arriving at Hownam, the first object of interest was 

 the inspection and examination of some curious terraces upon 

 the sides of the hills in the vicinity ; these terraces are 

 arranged in such various directions that they cannot be the 

 result of water — like the parallel roads in Glen Roy ; they 

 are evidently not fortifications, and therefore can only have 

 been thus formed for the purpose of cultivation alone. Sec- 

 tions had been cut through three of the terraces, shewing 

 them to be nothing but earth containing angular fragments 

 of porphyry, none such as had been rounded by the action of 

 water. 



