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Notice of Squirrels colonizing a District in South North- 

 umberland. By Rev. J. F. Bigge, Stamfordliam. 



The first Squirrel seen here, was about twenty-five years ago. 

 I met a man one morning, and lie told me the day before, that 

 he was riding over the bridge at Corbridge, and he saw two 

 Squirrels running along the parapet of the bridge northwards 

 veri/ early in the morning. Two days after a farmer told me, 

 that he saw two Squirrels sitting on the roof of his byre, at 

 Muckeridge ; the next day they were seen at the Birness, and 

 within a few days after they landed at Dissington, the residence 

 of Mr CoUingwood ; where they used to lay down nuts for them ; 

 and they are still there, and in the neighbouring woods at 

 Cheeseburn Grange and Matfen, 



On an Ancient Phial, found at Kelso. By Francis 

 Douglas, M.D. 



Dtjring the summer of 1878, the foundation was being dug 

 for a new Public ' School at Kelso, in the vicinity of the Abbey, 

 and on a portion of ground, which, from the numerous remains 

 of stone sarcophagi and bones, must have at one time been used 

 as a burying-place. About five feet below the surface, and in 

 close proximity to a perfect stone sarcophagus, was found a small 

 glass phial, which happily attracted the notice of the contractor, 

 was secured by him, and subsequently presented to the Kelso 

 Museum. The phial is one inch and three-quarters in length, 

 with a narrow neck, expanding again to a funnel-shaped lip. 

 The greatest circumference is three and a half inches, that of the 

 neck one inch and half — colour greenish, semiopaque and par- 

 tially iridescent, like Yenetian glass. , The phial is of consider- 

 able strength, and has a base hollowed out like a wine bottle of 

 the present period. The sarcophagi found at the same spot be- 

 long to the 11th or 12th centuries. 



On comparing this phial with others in the Museum of the An- 

 tiquarian Society of Scotland, in Edinburgh, I found no speci- 

 mens at all resembling it in form, excepting one which was very 

 much larger and slighter. The obliging Curator and Dr Mitchell, 



