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the later chapels or oratories that replaced them, were duly 

 examined ; but the mere outline of these humble edifices, 

 little embellished as they must have been, appeal to us 

 chiefly by their associations with the past. Leaving the 

 Hill by the footpath, the party held on, skirting some fearful 

 precipices and jagged outlying promontories — the neck of one 

 distinguished by a fine rock ruin that might have been the 

 remains of a giant's castle — onwards to Coldingham shore. 

 Here the brown outlying scattered rocks, with intervening 

 channels of deep blue water, afford a pleasing view. Passing 

 the " Sands," the rocks were reached, below the Homiliknoll, 

 where Prior iErnald (whose tomb was discovered during the 

 repairs of Coldingham Church) once held his baronial court. 

 These rocks, which are Silurian, are much altered and burnt 

 to a dun color, by contact with the igneous rock of St. Abb's 

 Head. The walk terminated at the vitrified mass, popularly 

 called the " Deil's dander," the result of an attempt to con- 

 vert this altered and limestone-like rock into lime. It was 

 of course, a failure. 



Forty-four dined in the Volunteer Hall at Coldingham. 

 The following nominations for membership were made : — Mr. 

 Robert Gray, Edinburgh, author of " The Birds of the West 

 of Scotland " ; Mr. Robert F. Logan, 4, Picardy Place, Edin- 

 burgh, the well-known entomologist ; Mr. Philip W. T. 

 Warren, M.A., Master of the Grammar School, Berwick ; Mr. 

 W. Willoby, jun., Berwick ; Colonel W. Crossman, Royal 

 Engineers, London ; and Captain F. M. Norman, R.N., North 

 Berwick. 



Mr. Stevenson, of Dunse, read a paper on ice action in 

 Berwickshire ; and Mr. Milne Home addressed the audience 

 in support of Mr. Stevenson's statements, and adduced the 

 observations, which he detailed, that had that day been 

 made in the vicinity of Coldingham Lough. Mr. Wood 

 shewed a large whetstone and two spindle whorls made of 

 slate, which had been found on the top of Mosilee hill, Gala- 

 shiels ; and Dr. Hood a very perfect triangular flint arrow- 



