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deserted the Dogden moss, since it was drained. In tlie montli 

 of July they often remain all night in grass or turnip fields near 

 Fans. 



We again retraced the road to Legerwood. Mr Smail informs 

 me that about this place, there are still great numbers of bad- 

 gers, and that he is not aware of any parish with so many mag- 

 pies. Climbing the road that leads to Huntly-wood and the 

 Moristouns, beside a plantation, we looked across at the pretty 

 picture presented by the church and manse, and the field of 

 graves in front, and the clump of sheltering trees. Taking the 

 Huntly-wood road we saw that our late companions had gained 

 the summit of the Knock Hill. There is an old British camp 

 there, which is still traceable by the different colour of the corn, 

 when it is under crop. East and West Moristouns appeared 

 amidst plantations, and Fans in an open between woods, with 

 Oowdenknows and the Eildons in the distance. Huntly-wood is 

 an extensive farm, with numerous attached cottages. We next 

 looked down upon Gordon Moss, and the railway, and across to 

 the Mellerstain woods. A piece of remarkably red soil, as if 

 derived from the Old Eed Sandstone, shewed itself on the left 

 before we reached the Greenknowe plantations. Growing in 

 these woods were some fine stately red-barked Scots firs. 



One of the results of this meeting was the bringing to light 

 various interesting British relics found in 1836, under a cairn 

 near Gordon which contained about a hundred cart loads of 

 stones. These consisted of a baked clay urn, with zig-zag orna- 

 ment; two portions of a silver clasp, or hook for fastening 

 clothing ; two silver oblong ingots ; and a gold ring of plaited 

 wire. These were shewn through the interposition of the Eev. 

 W. Stobbs, and belong to Mr John Hay, Gordon, an ancient 

 villager. Through the agency of Mr J. B. Kerr, these have been 

 sketched for a Plate in this. year's ''Proceedings." While the 

 late arrivals were viewing these precious remains, Dr Douglas 

 read to these assembled in the inn, from the Club's Proceedings, 

 vol. ii., pp. 5-6, the account of the Club's early visit, June 15, 

 1842, at which he was present, to Gordon, and the fruitless 

 search then made after the Zinncea. There were only five present 

 at that meeting. 



After dinner Mr Hardy read portions of a paper on Bassen- 

 dean, and shewed one portion of a transcript of the Baron Court 



