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Church has the date of 1614. Two old registers were shewn 

 of dates 1684 and 1689. The latter, beautifully written, 

 had been kept by a Dr. George Chalmers, of Kennoway, in 

 Fifeshire. There is a very fine communion service, of silver 

 overgilt with gold, presented by Lady Fitzclarence. The 

 organ was likewise lier gift. 



The view from the Rectory commands a fine sky outline 

 of the ridge of " Cheviot's mountains lone " ; also, the lower 

 Glendale heights and torrs ; and a front aspect of Flodden 

 Hill, with its dark wooded summit ; and the cultivated lands 

 on both sides of the Till, mapped off by hedges, already 

 brightening into green under the genial influence of spring. 

 The sloping glebe land lies in pasturage, and shows the 

 sweeping high-backed ridges of a past era of agriculture. 



The party then started for Etal. Before reaching Ford- 

 Forge on the way, Dr. Paxton called attention to a field 

 belonging to Hay farm, where, at the bottom bordering the 

 Till, there was turned up in draining some years since, a 

 sandstone with an inscribed circle. This stone is now in the 

 possession of Sir Horace St. Paul, at Ewart House. Dr. 

 Marshall also mentioned that on his hill at Chatton Park he 

 had recently discovered, under an overarching crag on the 

 north-east side, two carved circles on the upper face of the 

 rock, all the others seen in that locality having been on flat 

 stones. Mr. Hardy stated that he had examined the pave- 

 ment rock of Cuddie's Cove, near Doddington, and found it 

 pitted with seven rounded hollows : four in a quadrangle, 

 and three in line from these — the group being not unlike 

 the figure of Charles's Wain. Mr. Bolam had also obtained 

 a fresh example of a detached stone with two deep cut circles 

 and large hollows, from Weetwood Hill. The bird most 

 conspicuous during our walk was the Redstart, which 

 appears to be increasing in numbers on both sides of the 

 Borders. 



Of Etal Castle, which stands close upon the Till, there 

 remains a pretty entire entrance tower, which has the arms 



