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forces during the middle ages, had originally been one of the 

 ancient British fortlets. Crossing the deep dene and ascend- 

 ing to the top of a high scaur, the remarkable caves of 

 Lintalee, formed in the soft sandstone, were examined; they 

 are similar to those at Crailing, which were described in last 

 year's proceedings. The appearance of the caves here, con- 

 firms the opinion expressed by Mr. D. Milne Home in his 

 paper as to their comparatively modern origin, for within the 

 inner cave the tool marks in the rock are but little worn by 

 time ; and the percolation of water, through the porous sand- 

 stone, would render such caves altogether unfit for permanent 

 human occupation. 



The party then wended their way to Old Fernihirst, the 

 Castle of the Kers, erected in 1490 ; though battered down 

 with cannon in 1523, its 



" battled keep 

 Still towers embosomed in the wood 

 Where now all warlike echoes sleep." 



It has been converted into a farm-house. After examining 

 the towers and apartments of the castle, the party returned 

 to Jedburgh in time for dinner, passing in their route " The 

 King of the Wood," a great oak tree 80 feet high, another of 

 the remnants of the Jed forest, and Fernihirst old red sand- 

 stone quarry, in which fish remains are found. 



The ground passed over was not productive of natural his- 

 tory objects of much interest. 



Mr. Jerdon furnishes the following Botanical notes : — 

 The club did not meet with any new or rare plants, the 

 productions of the old red sandstone formation, which forms 

 the valley of the Jed being, as Mr. Tate observed, not gener- 

 ally of an interesting character. On the old Abbey of Jed- 

 burgh, the wallflower (^Cheiranthus Cheiri^ was observed 

 growing very luxuriantly; and in a hedge at Inchbonny, 

 Chelidonium majus was noticed. This latter plant, however, 

 was certainly an outcast from a garden. In the glen, or 

 dene, at Tintalee, Aspidium aculeatum was seen on the 

 banks in some abundance, and also Stellaria nemorum, by the 



