Anniversary Address. 3 



The Club was joined by several members of tbe newly-founded 

 East Lothian Natural History Society, and thus the day proved an 

 occasion for the interchange of greetings between this, the young- 

 est daughter, and our own venerable mother Field Club. The 

 East Lothian Society was represented by the Eevs. E. Nimmo 

 Smith, John F, Grrant, Alexander Thomson, and T. N. Wannop ; 

 Henry Martin, M.D,, F.S.A. ; Messrs Magnus Badger, John 

 Brook, David Oroal, William Davie (secretary), A. M. Main, — 

 Martin, and James Eobb, all of Haddington ; and Mr Frank 

 Muirhead, Eaglescarnie. 



Soon after 11 o'clock a start was made for the Garleton Hills, 

 some members driving, while others remained behind to make 

 leisurely acquaintance with the antiquities of the town. The 

 pedestrians were under the guidance of Mr Eobb and Mr Badger, 

 enthusiastic members of the local Society, and were accompanied 

 by some lady-members of the same Society. 



The line of the excursion lay along the public road past the 

 District Lunatic Asylum to the Hopetoun Monument. Then the 

 route was taken along the ridge of the Hills eastward to the 

 British Camp on the Kae Heugh ; from which the members of 

 the party made their way in groups in as direct a line as possible 

 to Haddington. 



The Hopetoun Monument was the first point at which a halt 

 was made, and there the walking and driving sections of the 

 party reassembled. Seated on the projecting rocks, or reclining 

 on the close, rich grass, they enjoyed the wide-spread prospect 

 extending on all sides. Unfortunately the heat-haze was so 

 dense that the Fife coast was entirely hid from view, and even 

 the nearer landscape a good deal obscured ; but nearly the whole 

 of East Lothian, from the Doon Hill of Spot to Falside Hill 

 above Tranent, could be studied as on a map, and enough was 

 seen to fill the eye and impress the mind with the fertile nature 

 of this richly cultivated county ; while the slopes of the Lammer- 

 moors to the south spoke also of its pastoral wealth. 



The next halt was made at the British Camp, which was ex- 

 amined with interest, but found to display no peculiar or notable 

 features. It is irregularly circular. On three sides it is defended 

 by a triple mound, while the precipitous Kae Heugh sufficiently 

 protects the remaining northern side. There are no remains of 

 hut circles, or erections of any kind, within or connected with the 

 camp, and apparently no provision for a supply of water. 



