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narrow slit in a thick wall ; and beneath it, many feet down, 

 is the dark dungeon to which there was access by a trap door 

 through the prison floor. Letters rudely cut on the prison 

 walls, and some rows of long and short lines, are records of 

 wretched prisoners immured here, and of the weary days 

 passed in captivity. The interior of the castle presents more 

 pleasing objects ; for here are some of the finest paintings in 

 the county — original portraits of Charles I. and II., of 

 Bacon, of Jeffreys, of the Grey family and of many others, in- 

 cluding productions from the pencil of Godfrey Kneller, Van- 

 dyke, Reynolds, Landseer, and other distinguished artists. 



From the castle the party returned by the direct route to 

 Chatton ; and after dinner the members proposed at last 

 meeting were elected ; and the following nominations were 

 made, viz. : — Rev. James Dand, Ancroft, and Mr. William 

 Crawford, Dunse. 



The following papers were read : — one from Mr. James 

 Hardy, of Penmanshiel, containing a list of the Border Li- 

 chens ; an account from Rev. F. R. Simpson of an ancient 

 British Cist discovered at North Sunderland ; and a history 

 of the Battle of Flodden Field, by the Rev. Robert Jones of 

 Branxton. Mr. Geo. Tate afterwards gave an account of 

 excavations, recently made into the antiquities of Yevering ; 

 and it was resolved, that a special meeting of the club be held 

 on the 15th inst., at Yevering, to examine the excavations. 

 Mr. Wm. Boyd shewed to the meeting a goose egg, having 

 another e^g within ; it was laid, along with a number of 

 others of the same kind, by an old goose at Boutrigg in 

 Roxburghshire ; and both the inner and outer egg were per- 

 fect so far, as each had a " yolk and white." Mr. Ralph 

 Huggup shewed a number of flat circular perforated stones, 

 found at Shorestone along with hard burnt red pottery with 

 an incised pattern ; such stones have generally been regarded 

 as weights for ancient spindles. It was also stated that Mr. 

 James Hardy, of Penmanshiel, had discovered two insects 

 new to Northumberland from a fungus on alder, in the 

 IJlburn ; viz., Carida fciuosa, d.\\^ Orchesia micans. 



