34 Anniversary Address. 



" These mountains wild," began the Maiden, " clainS;, 

 Each for itself, a separate local namie. 

 We stand on Lanton Hill. Not far behind, 

 The verdant Howsden woos the summer wind. 

 That mountain, with its three wild peaks, before. 

 Is styled by dwellers near it, Newton Torr. 

 The oak-clad ridges, there, of Akeld, swell, 

 And here the bolder slopes of Yevering Bell. 

 "While towering, yonder, with his patch of snow, 

 And proudly overlooking all below, 

 Is Cheviot's mighty self, his throne who fills — 

 Th' admitted Monarch of Northumbrian hills. 

 — Two streams you see, one winding still and clear, 

 The other hastening on its bright career, 

 As glad yon deep and sunless glen to miss — 

 The Beaumont that we call, the College this. 

 Beneath yon clump of trees they meet, and then 

 Their mingled waters take the name of Glen. 

 An humble stream ! which yet, to pious fame. 

 Is not without its pure and gentle claim. 

 For men relate, that when the Gospel-beam 

 Began at first across the land to stream, 

 - A hundred Saxon converts, in one day, 

 "Washed in that stream their crimson sins away ; 

 "While angel bands, revealed to mortal sight. 

 From cloud and mountain watched the sacred rite ?" 



— [Guthrum the Dane.) 



For particulars of this locality I refer to a very accurate 

 account of it, in Mr. Alexander Jeffrey's History of Rox- 

 burghshire. He defines the name from Yet a gate, and Ham 

 a dwelling. 



Kirk Yetholm was in olden times celebrated for its race of 

 Gipsies, whom the Kings of Scotland respected at one time, 

 and at others punished with the greatest severity. At one time 

 recognizing by writ the leader as " our lovile Johanne Faa, 

 Lord and Earl of Little Egypt^''' and at another, even to be 

 a Gipsy, was a crime punished with death, and many were 

 hanged " according to the Statute." 



The race no'w may be said to be nearly extinct, and 

 although there is one who is acknowledged to be the King of 

 the Gipsies, still they are not in any way different from the 

 muggers of various villages who shut up their houses in 

 summer, and live in tents or camps, and return to their 

 houses on the approach of winter. 



