478 Reyort of Meetings. By the President. 



to us, a stunted relic of tlie original forest, on the slopes of the 

 hill of that name. In the neighbourhood the Witch of Fauldshope 

 lived, and on its summit is a cairn erected in honour of one of 

 the Dukes of Buccleuch having attained his majority. 



Many hundreds of golden plovers with a few green in company 

 were seen in a flattish meadow on our left. 



Having passed the Catslack and crossed Ettrick Bridge, we 

 had our attention directed to Kirkhope Tower, an old Peel, but 

 dating back to the 1 2th century; to Kirkhope Linns, a deep 

 gorge below the Manse, where salmon do love to congregate ; to 

 some particularly fine old Scotch firs on the crest of the hill above 

 the Manse; and that a mile above the Linn, the river takes the 

 odd shape of a double horse shoe. 



About a couple of miles above the Linn, we passed amid a fine 

 show of natural wood, such as Eowan, Thorn, Ash, Alders and 

 Birch. There was also plenty of indigenous Hazel, which, we 

 were told, fruits fairly well, much to the delectation of school 

 excursionists. 



A spot in the river below the farm house of Singlie, nine 

 miles from Selkirk, was visible from the road. A melancholy 

 interest attaches to it, as 4 young ladies, 2 of them being visitors, 

 were drowned there in 1800, while bathing. 



The geological formation of the district through which we 

 were driving was entirely Greywacke of the Lower Silurian 

 series. Every where ancient " high water marks," were evident 

 in the vicinity of the river — indeed the Estuary of the Tweed is 

 supposed to have at onetime been. situated where Ettrick Bridge 

 at present stands, which is not at all unlikely, as it is indisput- 

 able that the sea formerly covered the valleys of the Tweed and 

 its tributaries, and the evidences of its action and of the rivers 

 having cut their way gradually down to the present level are 

 abundant and clear. In the river-bed we saw many good speci- 

 mens of Kaims, or Kaim-like ridges, which, there, (whatever 

 may be thought about them in other localities,) were clearly 

 formed by the action of the river scooping out hollows and 

 leaving the ridges in its detrital bed. 



Leaving our carriages we rambled up the hill side to see the 

 remains of Tushielaw Tower and the famous " Hanging Tree," 

 an old Ash, but in good preservation, with its ancient branches 

 stiU intact, and of most convenient form and situation for the 



