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profusely gay this season, as might be seen on the banks of 

 the Blackadder. The aspect of Greenlaw has much improved 

 in recent years ; most of the houses having exfoliated their 

 mean-looking coats of thatch, and adopted blue slates. The 

 houses have a bricky look at a distance, from the colour of 

 the sandstone of which they are built. The red sandstone of 

 Greenlaw quarry is valuable. Many of the railway bridges 

 in the vicinity were constructed of it ; and there is a con- 

 siderable traffic in it to Melrose and Galashiels, and other 

 towns connected with the railway system. 



" Before dinner, at Greenlaw, Dr Campbell exhibited por- 

 tions of the eggs, and the leg bones of the Moa, from New 

 Zealand ; examples of red haematite, from East Lothian ; 

 and chips of mica slate, studded with garnets, from a British 

 mill-stone at Bogend, shewing that the old natives of the 

 Merse had either trafficked with the Scottish Highlands in 

 this commodity, or had brought it thither in their migra- 

 tions. There were also shewn large compact bullets, felted 

 by the action of the waves from macerated portions of a cargo 

 of flax, stranded at Burnmouth. 



" Since the meeting, I have made enquiries about the 

 Quern, alluded to above, found at Bogend, and come to the 

 conclusion that it must have been lying in a small hut-circle, 

 either loose, or from portions of it being adherent to another 

 stone, as forming part of the pavement. Mr Hood, the 

 tenant, writes : e The place where the mica schist was found 

 was paved, apparently in a circle, with rough flags of stone 

 some nearly a yard long — the diameter of the circle would be 

 about three yards. Some of the flags had been turned up by 

 the plough before we saw the place, and the ploughman had 

 examined the stone, broken it, and thrown it aside as useless. 

 There was no appearance of bones, &c. ; although the place 

 was carefully examined as each stone was lifted with a pick- 

 axe. One of the flags had pieces of mica-schist adhering to 

 it.' Mr Stevenson writes : * Mr Hood kindly sent me a large 

 portion, nearly half the Quern in question. The piece sent 



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