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through, and aspire above it, and in the summer spread abroad a 

 wealth of snowy blossoms. The three combined, the support 

 and its fragrant embellishments, were planted by two ladies of 

 the Derwentwater family, who resided long in the hall after the 

 ruin of its former owners, — the EadclifFes. 



I learn that there are some old solid foundations near the 

 outer shepherd's house ; and traces of a British camp on the 

 higher ground. On Friday afternoon, I went to Doddington, to 

 obtain the particulars about two urns revealed in digging the 

 foundations for re-building a farm cottage at Mr Barber's. They 

 were dug out together from under the door-stone of the old cot- 

 tage, and are both broken, but are in very fine condition other- 

 wise. They are thin in texture, somewhat polished, and reddish 

 coloured. Both are ornamented all over. The largest is an 

 urn for ashes of the dead ; the smallest a drinking cup. 

 The largest, of a flower-pot shape, has at the top a band 

 of upright and transverse strokes alternately ; then a broader 

 band of chevron or zig-zag ornament; and finally a series of upright 

 and transverse strokes to the bottom. The other, of the size of a 

 small tumbler, and it might be said tumbler shaped, is ornamented 

 with entire lines, and lines of dots encircling it in alternation. It 

 cannot be described without a figure ; and Mr Barber expressed 

 his willingness to lend the urns for the purpose of having them 

 sketched. I learned at the Eectory that people have been un- 

 covering the inscribed stones on Doddington hill, which the 

 Eev. W. Procter, junr., had endeavoured to protect with sods ; 

 and also that the inscriptions at the Eouting Linn are becoming 

 effaced by the weather, and that idle visitants are disfiguring the 

 stones by cutting their names on them. 



When sheltering from a thunder storm, at Etal Castle, on the 

 previous day, Mr Hughes and I remarked a considerable number 

 of mason marks on the stones in the interior of the ruinous 

 structure, which may be available for estimating its age. 



The following were some of the plants noted among the rocks 

 at Tiptoe, or on the banks of Till there : 



Parietaria diffusa. 

 Lonicera periclymenum. 

 Euonymus europaeus. 

 Origanum vulgare. 

 Geranium pratense. 

 Tauacetum vulgare. 



Nepeta glechoma. 

 Hypericum perforatum, 



hirsutum. 



Agrimonia eupatoria. 

 Juncus diffusus. 



