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afterwards gave an account of an ancient British interment 

 discovered near Alnwick ; and then described the geology of 

 the district, noticing the discovery of remains of fish during 

 the day's ramble. Some observations were made by members 

 on the food of the salmon. It was mentioned that in the 

 stomach of a salmon caught in Mr. George Young's fishery 

 above the mouth of the Whitadder, a portion of a herring had 

 been taken out. In an address delivered at Berwick, subse- 

 quent to our meeting, Mr. Milne Home stated that " only 

 lately a salmon was caught at Twizel, a place which it would 

 probably be three days in reaching from the sea, and on being 

 opened, five herrings were found in its stomach." On the 

 same topic, some years ago, Mr. George Young had told to 

 the Tweed Commissioners' meeting at Cornhill, that a salmon 

 had been caught in the Tweed with a kitten in its inside. 

 Mr. Home also said that only "last week a salmon was caught 

 which was found to have swallowed the toe-plate of a man's 

 shoe." We were previously aware from the Club's Proceed- 

 ings, that salmon devoured herrings ; but the value of addi- 

 tional confirmatory facts is not thereby diminished. 



We were told by Mr. Proctor, that during the rebuilding 

 of the chapel at Holystone, a grave formed like that of an 

 ancient Briton, of slabs, had been dug up. The ground may 

 have been used for burial previous to the arrival of Paulinus; 

 and even its sacred fount "the Lady's well" may be a relic 

 of paganism, for the Saxons were strongly addicted to well- 

 worship.* 



The Duke of Northumberland was proposed as a member 

 by Mr. Tate, which was seconded by the President, and by 

 a special vote his Grace was unanimously elected a member. 

 Mr. Wilson, of Holy Island, was nominated for membership. 



This visit to the Coquet might have been more productive 



* The connection of Paulinus with Holystone appears to be traditional only. 

 In "Mackenzie's History of Noithumberland," Bede is cited as the authority 

 for 3,000 persons being baptized there ; but, on looking into Bede, (Ecclesiast. 

 Hist. B. ii. c. 14.), there is no mention whatever of this circumstance. There is 

 this reference to it in Camden's Britannia, col. 1093. " Hard by stands Holy- 

 ston, or Holystone, where in the infancy of the English church, Paulinus is said 

 to have baptized many thousands," 



