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at church Gifford, which, however, was destined not to endure 

 — pursuing his weary way across the Lammermoors, till his 

 eye rested on a small valley, green amid surrounding heather, 

 fringed with wood among surrounding barrenness, with a river 

 joined by two sister tributaries peaceably wandering through 

 it, a well, gifted with miraculous virtue gushing out at its side, 

 and on the mountain shoulder beyond, a village, which in the 

 course of a few years was to become the royal residence of 

 Edwin, whose ruins still remain — and as his soul was glad- 

 dened by the fair prospect of these green pastures and still 

 waters, is it to be wondered that he should remain here a while, 

 and that he should wish to endow so lovely a spot with another 

 and a nobler loveliness, and to make it a centre from which 

 should be distributed to the surrounding country the blessings 

 of religion, learning, and civilisation ? A simple church it 

 must have been which he founded here, constructed, probably, 

 of dry stone or rough timber and thatched with heather or the 

 fern. Beside it a hut, which he himself would at first inhabit 

 and then leave in charge of a favourite pupil, when he went 

 to excavate new heathen and found other churches. And if 

 his spirit were ever permitted to revisit this spot of earth, we 

 can conceive how it would be grieved when it saw the church 

 which he had founded, rebuilt indeed and enlarged, but per- 

 verted to the worship of a false religion, and become the abode 

 of ignorance instead of being the light of the Lammermoors, 

 until at the Reformation it again became the seat of a pure 

 worship, when Dame Elizabeth Lamb the Lady Prioress, and 

 her three nuns, unable even to write their names, left it for ever. 



"Haec pauca de vita S. Baithini." 



Additions to the Zoology of Berwickshire. By R. Embleton. 



CoLUMBA TuRTUR ; The Turtle Dove. A specimen of this 

 rare visitant was shot here a short time ago, but was so much 

 shattered as to prevent its preservation. 



F. CIRRIPEDIA. g. balanus. 



B. porcatus (Darwin.) B. Scoticus (Brown.) B. costata 

 (Donovan.) From deep water on stones and sticks, not un- 

 common. 



B. crenatus (Darwin.) B. borealis (Donovan.) Common. 

 B. Hameri (Darwin.) B. candidus (Brown.) On the 

 Longstone, very fine ; but sparingly. 



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