388 Anniversary/ Address. 



having it taken away by every flood."* The land is now 

 given up to sheep. The herbage is rather coarse, containing 

 a proportion of bent, Nardus stricta, which Cheviot sheep 

 reject. There are fewer clumps of brakens on these hills 

 than one sees on the porphyritic hills about Wooler. We 

 went across a piece of boggy ground. The plants noted 

 'were Sedicm villosum, Myosotis repens, the water cress, 

 Brooklime, and Avena pratensis in the pastures. A single- 

 ringed British camp of small dimensions lay on our left ; an 

 ancient farm-steading I might call it. Hawsden burn runs 

 in a confined winding ravine, that cuts its way sheer through 

 the hills, which rise steep and bare on either side. By the 

 burn there are a few mosses ; Polytrichum alpinum, Bryum 

 cernuum, and Cinclidotus were noticed. TJiese, and Fox- 

 glove, and the Shepherd's Pansy ; Aspidium Oreopteris and 

 Asplenium Adimitum-nigrum were all the plants we saw. 

 Whether Hawise who gave name to the dean was a man or a 

 woman some old deed alone can testify ; there was such a 

 name of either sex.f The party now became still further 

 divided, some went down to Harbottle Castle, and others 

 turned up the Alwine to look at Clennell, and its patriarchal 

 sycamores and ashes. Clennell was a peel-tower in the olden 

 time, it is now modernised into a mansion-house ; and as we 

 sat opposite it, more than one of us thought it one of the most 

 delightful nooks in the world for one to turn into in one's old 

 days. 



" And I said, if peace may be found in the world, 

 That best of all blessings, I'll meet with it here." 



In this mood, we quite forgot to look for the trap-dike, which 

 Mr. Tate says is visible here, " approaching near to the 

 porphyry of the Cheviot, hut never entering itr % 



After dinner. Notes were read of a botanical visit to the 

 Cheviots ; and from Mr. Embleton, Notes, zoological and 

 botanical. Mr. Tate read a paper on Harbottle castle, and 



* Bailey and Culley's View of Agric. of Northumberland, pp. 113 114. 



f In 6 Edward III., £'azi;«X widow of Sir John de Clavering of Warkwortb 

 held in dower the manor of Rothbury and the " Hamlets of Sniker, Berlin, 

 Thropton, end Newton." Collins' Peerage, Suppl. II., p. 651. 



X New Flora of Northumberland and Durham, p. 32. 



