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waters. The mass of vegetation is very rank, and the trees 

 in some places are very much crowded, so much so that in 

 one or two places we noticed young firs, fifteen and sixteen 

 feet in height, standing leafless and bare, having died in the 

 struggle for air and room, while their more fortunate neigh- 

 bours were pushing a-head. On coming in sight of the old 

 mill the scene was positively charming, so much of nature 

 on every side. On our right is a gravelly scaur, on which is 

 a rich growth of hazel, thorn, sloe, wild roses ; and depending 

 over the face of the precipice were festoons of ivy, flowering 

 honeysuckle, and brambles, the line extending to the old 

 mill, which is picturesquely situated between two tree- 

 topped rocks, suggestive of the happy line in Virgil's 

 Bucolics — 



' Hinc alta sub rupe canet frondator ad auras.' 

 On the left is a grassy brae, and a rocky precipice, on 

 which is situated a farm steading —a corn stack just peering 

 over the ledge. Above us is a magnificent elm, with beauti- 

 ful spreading branches, and before us the stream murmurs 

 down the valley, a silver thread in an emerald lawn. Pas- 

 sing the romantic-looking mill, which leaves only about four 

 feet to spare to walk upon, a little cascade meets our view ; 

 and ascending the rock the mill pond lies before us, its 

 banks fringed by a lavish profusion of summer verdure." 



In boats, kindly placed at their disposal by Mr George 

 Young, of Berwick, the members crossed the Tweed, and 

 visited the old church yard at Fish wick. It is somewhat 

 inappropriately planted up, to a considerable extent, with 

 ordinary forest trees, and contains, besides some ancient 

 tombstones, with the usual quaintly-spelt inscriptions, a 

 mortuary chapel erected about the year 1835, as a family 

 burial place, by the late Mr Macbraire, of Broadmeadows. 

 While in the boats, attention was directed to the abundance 

 of A nacharis A Isinastrum, which grew in the water. Mr 

 Young informed us that within a few years this plant had 

 increased to a great extent, having advanced up the Tweed 

 at the rate of a mile in a year. When allowed to grow, it 



