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tained, and utilized, and incorporated with the restoration, 

 whose style tells us very approximately the date of its erec- 

 tion. The process of utilization has continued to our own 

 day, as witnessed in the western portion of the nave, now 

 used as the Parish Kirk. It has been utilized, but, alas ! 

 not restored. Externally, the old arches on either side are 

 blocked up with rough masonry, in which are inserted square 

 paned windows of modern type, utterly out of keeping with 

 the frame work which surrounds them ; and internally the 

 fair proportions of the grand old nave are curtailed, and 

 its architectural features marred, by the erection of hideous 

 pews and galleries. One cannot but rejoice to learn that a 

 new and suitable edifice is being, or about to be, built for the 

 Parish Kirk, and that these disfigurements will be cleared 

 away. These noble remains of the piety of former genera- 

 tions will then be visible in their full beauty and extent. 

 Would that they could have been again restored for the 

 celebration of holy rite — swelling anthem and full-voiced 

 chant and hymn again resounding, as in days of yore, all 

 through the sacred walls ! But we may not linger here ; 

 other work is before us. 



And here my good friend, our Secretary, Dr Douglas, comes 

 to my help ; and to his kindly furnished notes I am mainly 

 indebted for the further account of this, our first meeting. 

 "The abbey viewed, we separated into two parties: one 

 proceeding, under the guidance of Mr Adam Matheson, to 

 the Dunion, to inspect the geological features of the hill, in- 

 cluding a long extinct crater supposed to exist there ; but 

 after considerable research, the spot, if it exists, could not be 

 detected. A rare moss, Grimmia Schultzii, was however 

 gathered in fruit. Vicia lathyroides and Myosotis collina 

 grow on the Dunion ; also, Antitrichia curtipendula, Ortho- 

 trichum rupestre, Pteregonium gracile, and the pretty lichen, 

 Lecanora ventosa. This party afterwards descended by the 

 valley of the Blackburn towards Lintalee and the Jed, re • 

 turning by the road to Jedburgh, without discovering any- 

 thing novel, or of marked imterest. 



