24 Anniversary Address. 



It may be mentioned here that Mr Wilson has found Grapto- 

 lites in the Silurian shales of Longformaeus in more than one 

 spot, specimens of which he exhibited ; and also that a report he 

 mentioned has been confirmed, that Ruhus Chamcemorus is a native 

 of the Lammermoors, a new plant being thus added to the Flora 

 of Berwickshire. 



Our object in crossing the Dye was to visit an Ancient British 

 camp, locally known as Eunklie. It lies about a mile and a 

 half above Longformaeus, where the flanks of the hill Wrinklaw 

 drop abruptly down on Dye Water. The spot is naturally cap- 

 able of defence, being a kind of promontory projecting into the 

 valley, towards which it is protected by precipitous slopes. On 

 the other sides the fortification has been defended in the usual 

 way by walls or mounds, the outline of which is distinctly to be 

 traced. On two sides, in addition to that towards the valley, the 

 ground falls away abruptly into short ravines. Altogether the 

 spot was well chosen for a camp. In comparatively recent times 

 Eunklie was the site of a farm-house and buildings, and also of a 

 mill, the ruins of all of which still appear within the limits of 

 the more ancient remains. The place deserves fuller description 

 than can now be given, and might reward excavation. The 

 name is somewhat puzzling. I suggest that it may simply be a 

 corruption of the name of the hill, Wrinklaw ; which again re- 

 solves itself into the familiar Eink. 



At Eunklie we were among the haunts of the Curlew, which 

 was both seen and heard. A moor blackbird, Turdus torquafus, 

 startled by our approach, flew, clamouring, down one of the 

 bounding ravines, aud disappeared under the abrupt face of the 

 camp. This bird is said to be not uncommon in these upland 

 vaUeys. 



From Eunklie we returned by a path along the elevated 

 ground north of the Dye. Arrived at the Manse, attention was 

 directed to a ruin of which nothing definite could be ascertained. 

 It forms the western boundary of the Manse garden, and con- 

 sists of the gable end of a dwelling whose walls were four feet 

 thick. It is said to have been at one time the Manse ; but more 

 probably it was a mansion built with a view to defence, when 

 these Border lands were less peaceable than they happily are 

 now. Symphytum tuberosum grows along the margin of the deserted 

 garden of this building without a history ; and some aged ash 

 trees, survivors of a more numerous group, stand near at hand. 



