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would endeavour to procure a written memorandum of them 

 however brief, to be recorded in our transactions. 



3. I bring before the club a short report which I have 

 drawn up of some caves on the estate of Mr. Paton of Crail- 

 ing, in the county of Roxburgh, visited by our Secretary and 

 myself a few weeks ago. These caves belong to the same class 

 as the caves to which Professor Simpson refers in his address 

 to the Scotch Antiquarian Society, when he asks, " What is 

 the age of the rock caves of Ancrum, Hawthornden, &c., and 

 were they primarily used as human habitations?" To that 

 enquiry of the President of the Antiquarian Society, I think 

 my report on the Crailing caves furnishes an answer. 



4. I bring before the club another short notice of an old 

 Border camp on my property at Milne Graden, and situated 

 on the north bank of the river Tweed, In various parts of 

 the Tweed, and especially where the river was fordable, such 

 camps existed. It seems to me desirable to preserve some 

 record of them. 



In conclusion, I beg to offer for the consideration of the 

 meeting a few remarks, bearing not so much on the objects of 

 the club, as on its constitution and management. 



1st. We have to thank the managers of the North Eastern 

 and North British railway companies for the liberal manner 

 in which they allow the members of our club to travel to and 

 from our places of meeting. They grant to us a privilege 

 which no other persons receive, of return tickets at one fare 

 and a sixth, available for two days. Were it not for the rail- 

 way, it would be impossible for usto hold meetings over so 

 large an area of country, as that which the club embraces ; 

 and when members attending these meetings are enabled to 

 travel for little more than half of the expense charged to the 

 general public, the club feels, and they have authorized me 

 as their President to say, that we are much indebted to the 

 managers of the railways for their liberality. 



2nd. We consider also, that it would be a respectful and 

 becoming act on the part of our club formally to thank Lord 

 Ravensworth, the Duke of Roxburgh, and the Duke of 



