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the party broke up early ; the meeting, from the number and 

 interest of the communications read or given, having been 

 one of the most successful. 



The third field meeting of the Club was held on July 25th, 

 at Langleyford, an old and favourite rendezvous , at the base 

 of the Cheviots, and was numerously attended. There were 

 present : — The Rev. F. R. Simpson, President ; Mr James 

 Hardy, Secretary ; Mr Robert Middlemas, Treasurer ; Revs. 

 W. Greenwell, W. L. J. Cooley, W. Darnell, W. Meggison, 

 P. G. McDouall, J. S. Green, J. Elphinstone Elliot, E. B. 

 Trotter ; Sir George S. Douglas, Bart. ; Sheriff Russell ; 

 Dr Dennis Embleton ; Messrs C. H. Cadogan, W. Wight- 

 man, J. B. Boyd, A. Jerdon, J. E. Friar, W. Henderson, J. 

 C. Langlands, W. B. Boyd, T. Tate, G. Sholto Douglas, G. 

 P. Hughes, C. Rea, E. Allen, J. Heatley, T. H. Gibb ; and 

 the following as visitors : Major Paton ; Captain Nicholls ; 

 Messrs R. Howse (Newcastle), — Ellis, — Cooley, C. 

 Darnell, Stuart McDouall, Arthur Simpson, E. A. Storer, H. 

 A. Paynter, R. W. Surtees (South Shields), A. Barbour, W. T. 

 Hindmarsh, and H. H. Blair. 



Our worthy Secretary, Mr Hardy, in addition to the ex- 

 haustive paper he has prepared on Cheviot, has also furnished 

 me with copious notes of this visit. I will now give you such 

 extracts as may serve for a brief, but connected, summary of 

 our day's proceedings. 



" The weather was not quite propitious, a dense mist oc- 

 cupying the tops of the higher hills ; but it dispersed at 

 intervals, affording in glimpses, magical revelations of wild 

 highland scenery. Later on thunder was heard in the dis- 

 tance, and some showers fell, but without disturbing the 

 equanimity of the proceedings. The greater number of visi- 

 tors had reached Wooler or its vicinity on the previous even- 

 ing, and were conveyed in carriages to the scene of meeting. 

 Alnwick also sent up a large contingent, and the company 

 was augmented by several subsequent arrivals. 



"About 11 o'clock, the company took the road for Lang- 



