Anniversary Address 5 



Looking on it one could sympatliize •with, the almost idolatrous 

 enthusiasm of Linnseus, .who is reported, on first seeing in this 

 country a mass of whins in full blossom, to have fallen on his knees 

 and thanked Grod that he had lived to see the gorgeous sight. 

 Vicia angustifolia, var. Boharti, and Anagallis arvensis were picked 

 up in a grass field on the descent from the Monument. Viola 

 lutea occurred on the hill pastures in abundance ; and Gerastium 

 arvense was found in considerable quantity in a cultivated field to 

 the west of the British Camp. Cynodontium Bruntoni grew on a 

 stone wall and on the rocks. While the party were seated at 

 the base of the Monument, Dr. Stuart produced from his vasculum 

 for their delectation a number of rare plants grown in his garden 

 at Ohirnside, among them specimens of the fine blue and white 

 Aquilegia Stuarti. After dinner Arum '<^maculatum and Lathrc&a 

 squama/ria^ gathered in the neighbourhood of Haddington, were 

 exhibited. 



No rare birds were observed, but it was pleasant in the bright 

 summer day to see and hear such old friends as the stonechat, 

 the whinchat, the wheatear, the pipit-lark, the pied wagtail, the 

 white-throat, the willow-wren, and the corn-crake. The Kae 

 Heugh is so named as a haunt of the Jackdaw, but its imperti- 

 nent inhabitants were not visible while the visitors stood on the 

 brink of the precipice. 



After the party's return from the Garleton Hills, the town of 

 Haddington, pleasantly situated on both banks of the Tyne, here 

 a broad clear stream crossed by a 7ery ancient and picturesque 

 bridge, was inspected with much interest. Under the eflB.- 

 cient guidance of Mr Eobb, the House of the Earl of BothweU 

 was first visited. In the records of Haddington it is called 

 "the town house of the Master of Hailes" ; and the tradition 

 runs that Queen Mary, who had fled from Borthwick Castle, dis- 

 guised as a page, here changed her borrowed garments for 

 feminine attire, and pursued her way to Dunbar, there to rejoin 

 BothweU, who had escaped earlier. It is evidently a very 

 ancient structure — its winding staircase, its high-pitched roof, its 

 almost obliterated coat of arms on the outer wall, distinguishing 

 it among the surrounding buildings. 



The Nungate, an ancient suburb of the town on the east side 

 of the Tyne, now largely tenanted by Irish, was next visited. 

 Here the chief object of interest was St. Martin's Chapel, one of 

 the earliest ecclesiastical buildings in Scotland. Mr Hardy, in a 



