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hung pictures of pigmy trees, variously grouped. Then 

 came the stretch of Langleyford vale, with its crags or 

 castellated rocks on the boundary ridges ; and away out 

 from beneath the cloudy canopy, the low country smiling in 

 the brightness of golden sunshine. Despite mishaps, and 

 falls, and partial disappearances in hidden drain gullies, all 

 arrived at Langleyford, safe in limb, and in excellent spirits. 

 Some members who had climbed the mountain were so little 

 fatigued, that they afterwards ascended the Diamond Burn, 

 and were rewarded by finding some fair specimens of ame- 

 thystine crystals ; though these, from the constant chipping 

 of frequent tourists, are becoming yearly more scarce. 



" During the day, some of the attendants had captured, in 

 the fir wood, a rare and very conspicuous insect, new to the 

 Club's district and the Northumbrian Fauna, viz., Sirex gigas, 

 a kind of saw-fly, whose larvae lives in coniferous wood. A 

 month afterwards, a second species of the genus, Sirex Juven- 

 cies, of similar habits, was sent by Mr Jerdon, from Jedburgh; 

 and it is supposed that both of these have been observed in 

 these localities^for the first time. 



"After dinner, Mr Hardy read a paper on the physical 

 features, natural history, and archaeology of Langleyford 

 vale, and that side of Cheviot ; after which the Rev. Canon 

 Greenwell delivered a lucid address on the ancient inhabit- 

 ants of the hills, their habits, and occupations, as the results 

 from the series of laborious explorations which he has 

 prosecuted for so many years among the barrows of the 

 Northumbrian moors, the Yorkshire wolds, and the chalk- 

 pits of Suffolk and the south of England. There was no 

 time for other papers, which were merely announced ; the 

 company separating at six o'clock, on their way to their 

 respective destinations, well pleased with the recreation and 

 instruction derived from such assemblages ; where science 

 divests itself of its formal solemnity ; where facts become 

 deeply impressed on the mind amidst the grandeur or beauty 

 of nature, ever to be recalled with the delight almost of a 



