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mica, while here and there are scattered through the masss 

 hardened nodules of porphyry, and other nodules enveloping 

 green carbonate of copper. More peculiar still are fragments 

 ©f a similar rock distinctly laminated; and scattered through 

 the general matrix irregularly, so that the laminations slope 

 in different directions, and have the appearance of broken and 

 displaced stratified rocks. Resting on this porphyry are beds 

 of old red sandstone and conglomerate, in some parts near to 

 , 60 feet in thickness, and forming a cliff on the north side of 

 Eyemouth harbour." 



Near to the Fort, across a deep ravine, Captain Knivett 

 shewed to the members the rocket apparatus in action, by 

 means of which lives are rescued from shipwrecks; and to 

 him the thanks of the Club were passed for his courtesy and 

 attention. 



The company then visited the churchyard. Nowhere else, 

 perhaps, is there such a collection of tomb-stones of the '^raw 

 head and bloody bone " type. The Rev. Robert Lambe, vicar 

 of Norham, editor of an old poem on the ^'Battle of Flodden 

 Field," and author of the *' History of Chess, with easy in- 

 structions how to play it," Berwick, 1774, who died in 1795, 

 aged 84 years, was buried at Eyemouth. 



After dinner, the following communications were made: — 

 Zoological and Botanical notes, from Mr. Embleton; Notes on 

 caves near Burnmouth, and of Ancient British sepulchres at 

 Reston and at Billie Mains, from D. Milne Home, Esq. Mr. 

 Wilson, fishing officer of the Board of Trade, Eyemouth, 

 gave the Club an interesting account of the mussel scalps of 

 Lynn and Boston ; a subject of much importance to those 

 interested in the fishing trade of this port. Mr. William 

 Dickson communicated to the Club the discovery of a vein 

 containing Barytes and the black ore of Antimony on his 

 estate of Whitecross. As there was not time to visit the 

 locality on the day of meeting, Mr. Tate afterwards went to 

 the place, and through the kindness of the tenant of the farm, 

 the vein was exposed. " It runs in the direction of from 

 north to south, and is about 18 inches broad, having on both 

 sides a white quartzose rock, which protrudes through the 



