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owing to a haze on the horizon ; but the immediate shores 

 were distinct, and the little rocks that roughen and render 

 dangerous the entrance to the harbour, were pretty pictures, 

 although bare and barren. The rocks here are of ancient 

 volcanic origin — trap and trap-tufa, red coloured, with grey 

 patches. The hue may be owing to their having acquired 

 the colouring of the red sandstone, which they have here 

 ruptured. Near the harbour this iron-shot trap is pillared. 

 Cochlearia danica, along with the common scurvy grass, 

 grows on the Castle ruins. Several solan geese were skim- 

 ming across the waters, and a flock of about ten redshanks 

 dashed round the pier, shewing that they had not all as yet 

 left these rocky shores for their summer home by the High- 

 land lakes. A few curlews were the only other shore birds 

 specially noted. East of the town the old red sandstone is 

 set up on its edges, and at one place is intermingled with the 

 trap ; further along the links the calciferous sandstone over- 

 lies it, and then- the mountain limestone crops out. Still 

 further east, on East Barns shore, a curious discovery, not 

 3^et published, was lately made by some of the staff of the 

 Ordnance Survey, in finding a supposed new species of Pro- 

 ductus, a fossil shell, prevalent in mountain limestone, having 

 used its long spines as a means of attachment to Encrinal 

 stems (corals which form a notable component of that lime- 

 stone). The Producti are very minute, and cling closely 

 round the stem of the Encrinite, looking like a very small 

 long-rayed star-fish. On an eminence beyond Broxmouth 

 Park, an extensive prospect eastward was obtained, ter- 

 minating with St. Abb's Head. Broxmouth grounds were 

 next entered. The parks were regaining their spring verdure, 

 along with a sprinkling of daisies and buttercups of the bul- 

 bous species ; and a bright radiance played round the tree 

 tops already crowned with foliage. Some of the memorials 

 of the second battle of Dunbar, September 3, 1650, were here 

 pointed out. Here is " Cromwell's Mount ;" on the sea coast 

 below tide-mark is " Cromwell's Well ;" and from the win- 

 dows on the north-west of the mansion house the Protector 



