SU Mr. Jeffrey o?i Jedburgh. 



proprietor of that estate. It was conjectured that the word 

 Kaims was derived from the Scotch word signifying a comh, 

 on account of the shape of the ridge. One of the Kaims in 

 Dunse castle woods bears the popular name of " The skart- 

 ing Kaim," on account of the broken or jagged outline, 

 caused by some remarkable terraces on it. 



It now, gentlemen, only remains for me to thank you, for 

 your great kindness, in appointing me to the honourable 

 office of President. I am afraid I would have been a most 

 inefficient one, in any circumstances, but I am sorry to say 

 that family distress has prevented me attending your meet- 

 ings, during the year, and doing even the little that I might 

 have done. 



JEDBURGH. 



By Alexander Jeffrey, F.S.A., Scot. 



Jedburgh is a town of great antiquity. Before the Roman 

 eagle appeared upon the heights of the Cheviots it existed as 

 a British tOAvn, and during the Roman period, one of the 

 stations of the Watling Street, which runs through the dis- 

 trict, was in the immediate locality. When that mighty 

 people were called away to defend their own hearths and 

 altars from the Gothic hordes, it became, under the name of 

 Reged, the^ capital of Urien, the cherisher of bards, " the 

 shield of his country," who reigned in the hearts of the 

 Romanized Gadeni, and who carried his flaming sword into 

 Northumberland to meet the Saxon Ida. When this great 

 warrior fell by the treachery of Morkin, the King of Strath- 

 clyde, he was succeeded by his son Owen, whose sword stop- 

 ped the victorious career of the Northumbrian king. Not- 

 withstanding the valour of the civilized Britons, they were at 

 last overcome by Ethelfrid, and his successor Edwin estab- 

 lished the Saxon power from sea to sea. It was during this 

 period of fierce conflicts, which lasted for many years, that 

 the Catrail, which runs from the Rink camp, on the penin- 

 sula between the Tweed and Gala, to the Peelfell on the 

 sources of the Liddel and Jed, was formed by the Romanized 



