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great mass of them overlie these old rocks, having in fact been 

 poured out over their denuded edges as lava flows and ash beds 

 long after the Silurian beds had been overturned and worn down, 

 but before the deposition of the lowest Carboniferous deposits, 

 which, I take it, must be made to include the Upper Old Eed 

 Sandstone. This does not alter my previous view of the age of 

 the main mass of the Cheviot rocks which I still regard as being 

 probably Devonian." 



The party rested for a time in the hollow of the camp, which 

 is well screened. Watling Street climbed Thirlmoor hill opposite, 

 the track much disfigured at places, by attempts made by trav- 

 ellers to eschew the poached ground. The sheep were thinly 

 scattered over the hill-faces, and the shepherds and their dogs 

 were wending across the slopes among their flocks, or disappear- 

 ing down the slacks ; their steady progression forming subject of 

 remark. After leaving a record of the visit, in a bottle under a 

 cairn, and enjoying the quiet of the moorland solitude, dreary 

 no doubt at most tim«s, but now enlivened by the bright sun- 

 shine, we resumed the backward journey. 



There were many Curlews on the waste ; and fragments of 

 their eggs were picked up. Young pipits were flying round the 

 camp at Ad Finef. Eool<s, at certain seasons visit these uplands 

 in great flocks, and are said to make depredations on the moor- 

 fowl eggs. Lapwings frequented the summit of the Brown Hart 

 Law. 



The mossy ground near the camp yielded much of Sedum 

 villosum in fine flower; also Dicranum crispum ; Polytrichum 

 alpinum ; Mijosotis repens ; large-flowered Cerastium vulgatum ; 

 Lu%ula multiflora ; Carex ovalis and binervis. The Eev. W. Stobbs, 

 whom we encountered on the fell, found much of Scilla nutans on 

 the banks of the Coquet near Blindburn. The Eev. David Paul 

 communicates : '' the only Fungi I observed in our walk between 

 Bughtrig and the Makendon camps were three (this being the 

 worst season for the larger Fungi, lying between the spring and 

 autumn growths) viz. Agaricus pascuus ; Ag. semiorhicularis, and 

 Ag. campanulatus. The sedges I found on the hills were Carex 

 ovalis ; C. curta ; C. precox ; C. binervis ; C. panicea ; and C. 

 vulgaris." 



On regaining Hounam we found the rest of the company either 

 promenading the road leading from the village, or gathered in 

 pictures(jue groups on a grassy meadow by the Capehope burn 5 



