88 On Shells, &c., found at HuUon-hall Glif. 



ity and interest to all lovers of nature. On my last visit, a few 

 weeks since, I found one solitary solemn looking bird, perched 

 on the summit of one of the old trees, apparently surveying the 

 deserted spot ; at my approach he rose deliberately and flying to 

 a short distance, settled on a rising ground, in full view of his 

 former abode. " Dulcis reminiscitur Argos." Soon after the 

 notice above alluded to appeared in our Proceedings, His Grace 

 the Duke of Eoxburghe determined on planting some suitable 

 trees that the herons might take possession of, to rectify the 

 progressive decay of the old forest, but, as I have said above, the 

 birds took flight before the time the young trees had attained the 

 requisite size and strength. 



On Marine Shells and Fragments of Bones found at the 

 base of Hutton-hall Cliff, opposite Edington Mill. By 

 the Rev. Geokge Wilson, Glenluce ; Corr. Mem. of the 

 Scottish Society of Antiquaries. 



FouUen West Mains, 13th July, 1882: On the 11th July I was 

 at Edington Mill. At the foot of the Hutton-hall cliff opposite 

 the Mill, just above the stepping-stones, I picked out of the clay 

 three fragments of bone, and three specimens of the common 

 shell Littorina Uttorea. About 40 years ago I got at the same 

 place a lot of charred embers, shells, and charred bones, includ- 

 ing what I took for pig and deer bones. A medical student who 

 took charge of them for the Edinburgh Museum, lost them. 

 The sandstone cliff has always been more or less overhanging, 

 and the place seems to have been a cave or rock-shelter. I 

 never saw any tool. [At Edington Mains somewhat further up 

 the river on the other side of it, Mr John Wilson, at the foot of 

 the bank below his house, came upon a collection of cockle-shells, 

 fish-bones, and pieces of charcoal. This was conjectured to have 

 been a family feasting place of the ancient Britons. Club's 

 Proc. VII. p. 23-4.] 



