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27th June. After partaking of the many good things pro- 

 vided for breakfast at Acklington Rectory, by the kindness 

 of the Rev. George Selby Thomson, a former President of the 

 Club, a large party, under the guidance of Mr Middleton 

 Dand, of Hauxley Hall, proceeded through the neat and 

 clean looking village to a field which Mr Dand supposes to 

 have been the site of an old Roman camp. The names of 

 " Street Head," " Chester House," and others, may indicate 

 that there had been occupation of this neighbourhood by the 

 Romans, but no reliable remains of earthworks could be de- 

 tected ; certainly the locality seemed well suited for a camp, 

 as it commanded an extensive view in all directions for such 

 a champaign country. In the same field is a whinstone dyke 

 running E. to W., which has been utilised for road making 

 purposes. It is singular, as there is no other trap dyke in 

 the vicinity. The party then proceeded in the direction of 

 the Coquet, the larger number passing through the grounds 

 of Morwick Hall, the residence of Mr James Dand. The 

 old trees, particularly a fine tulip tree, a large acacia, and 

 numbers of fine yews attracted much notice ; in the garden 

 is a vault belonging to the Grey family, the former pro- 

 prietors, in which the mother of the late Sir John Grey, 

 who commanded a division in the Sutlej campaign, was in- 

 terred in 1796, as indicated by a plain tombstone at the end 

 of a fine over-arching avenue of yew trees. The vault also 

 contains an old monument, brought, it is said, from Wark- 

 worth, surmounted by the emblem of a double-handed sword. 

 A move was now made onwards to Morwick Mill, where 

 the party joined some of the members, who had gone there 

 by a more direct route to inspect the incised figures on rocks 

 overhanging the Coquet, a short way below the mill, which 

 had recently been discovered by Mr Middleton Dand. These 

 are different from any of those so well and elaborately des- 

 cribed by our late Secretary, Mr Tate, and others, as occur- 

 ring on rocks at Old Bewick, Doddington, Routing Linn, 

 and other places in Northumberland. Those already re- 

 corded occur generally on the surface of sandstone rocks, 



