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was too absorbed to attend to physical discomforts. Thirty as- 

 sembled ; including Mr Watson, President ; Dr Francis Doug- 

 las and Mr Hardy, Secretaries ; Eevs. James Farquharson, M.A., 

 Selkirk ; Alex. Phimister, M.A., Gordon ; and William Stobbs, 

 M.A., Gordon ; Messrs D. Angus, Edinburgh ; W. L. Blaikie, 

 Holydean ; James Bogie, Edinburgh ; W. B. Boyd, Ormiston ; 

 Andrew Brotherston, Kelso ; Alexander Dewar, M.D., Melrose ; 

 Charles Douglas, M.D., Woodside ; John Freer, Melrose; W. 

 A. Hunter, Dunse ; William H. Johnson, Edinburgh ; E. D. 

 Ker, Edinburgh ; Peter Loney, Marchmont ; Alexander Mac- 

 kenzie, M.D,, Kelso ; Joseph Moore, Smeaton Park, Inveresk ; 

 Capt. F. M. Norman, E.N., Berwick ; Eobert Eenton, Fans ; 

 Francis Eussell, Jedbank ; John Sadler, Eoyal Botanic Gardens, 

 Edinburgh; William Stevenson, Dunse; Charles Stuart, M.D., 

 Chirnside ; J. Erskine Stuart, M.D., Dunse ; John Thomson, 

 Kelso ; Thomas Turnbull, Lilliesleaf ; James Wood, Galashiels. 



The railway bank exposes the Old Eed Sandstone near the 

 Station, not far from where the basalt forms an overflow. The 

 basalt quarried near the Station is employed for road metal and 

 paving stones. The traditionary site of Gordon Castle is on a 

 kaim, now planted with fir trees, at the side of the public road, 

 N.W. of the Station. A few fragments of pottery were the only 

 relics exposed, when the line was cut across what might have 

 been its outworks ; and there was no indication of a sewer. The 

 plantation on the roadside to the village is cumbered with 

 basaltic boulders ; but none of them shew glacial markings. 

 These are examples of the obstructions, that the feuars of the 

 ground to the east of the village had to contend with, when it 

 was reclaimed. The numberless blocks that they excavated were 

 utilised in building enclosures to the intakes of double the usual 

 thickness, or were fractured, to fill up drains. The village is 

 mostly constructed of basalt. It consists of a lengthened double 

 row of houses, one on each side of the public road, and has a 

 cleanly look. Water is plentiful, being found wherever the 

 basalt cuts the sandstone. 



The Eev. William Stobbs shewed the members through the 

 church and churchyard. The church is a plain modern edifice, 

 but is roomy and comfortable in the interior, and is seated to ac- 

 commodate about 300 persons. Mr Stobbs said that in intro- 

 ducing the heating apparatus, the workmen about the centre of 



