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of whose tombs have been disturbed at various times on the 

 adjoining lands ; and that the sea-shells may possibly have 

 been carried up from the coast in the canoes of that ancient 

 people, of whom we have so small a knowledge. The 

 ancient castle of Edington stood on the eminence opposite 

 Hutton Hall, where a small burn with large willow trees on 

 its margin joins the Whitadder at the head of Edington 

 mill-dam. The remains of the old mansion-house of Edington 

 were pointed out in the corner of the market garden at 

 Edington ; and in the pasture-field close to the south-west 

 cornar of the garden, is an elevated mcund, evidently an 

 ancient place of sepulture, and at the edge of which one cist 

 was discovered by Mr. Wilson's father many years ago. 



After dinner at the Red Lion Hotel, Chirnside, the Presi- 

 dent read a few notes on a remarkable shower of pieces of 

 ice which occurred on the 22nd July, doing considerable 

 damage to glass and vegetation ; also, a notice from Mr. 

 Watson, of Dunse, relative to Mr. W. Hall, proprietor of 

 Whitehall, and patron of the parish, who tried to induce the 

 Rev. George Home, then parish minister, to omit to read a 

 government proclamation to his congregation, in 1736, on 

 the promise that he would give him a bond for the amount 

 of his stipend, as long as the minister lived ; but if he did 

 read the proclamation, that he would never again enter his 

 church or churchyard alive or dead. The minister did read 

 the proclamation, and Mr. Hall was as good as his word ; for 

 he lies buried in a tomb built in the plantation outside the 

 churchyard wall, and which, previous to getting Mr. Watson's 

 paper we had very imperfect information about. Captain 

 David Milne Home, of H.M. 2nd Life Guards (Blue), was 

 proposed as a member. 



On "the night of the great thunderstorm of the 22nd July, 

 an oak tree was struck by the lightning at Whitemire, in the 

 parish of Edrom, about twenty yards from the farm cottages. 

 It blew the top completely off, splitting the trunk to its root 

 into splinters, and denuding it entirely of its bark. The 



