Report of Meetings for 1881. By Jas. Hardy. 479 



Eipley Castle, Yorkshire; Sir Walter Elliot, K.O.S.I., LL.D., 

 of Wolfelee ; Sir George H. S. Douglas, Bart., of Springwood 

 Park ; Eevs. J. F. Bigge, Stamfordham ; James Boyd, Inner 

 leithen ; C. E. Bowden, Edinburgh ; John Henderson, Glasgow 

 David Paul, Eoxburgh ; E. F. Proudfoot, Pogo ; William Stobbs 

 Gordon ; Drs. H. S. Anderson, Selkirk ; Charles Douglas, Kelso 

 S. Grierson, Melrose ; James Hunter, Edinburgh ; Tennant 

 Melrose ; Weight, Melrose ; Captain Macpherson, Melrose 

 Captain Norman, E.N., Berwick ; Messrs George Anderson, Sel- 

 kirk; W. L. Blaikie, Holydean; James Bogie, Edinburgh ; John 

 B, Boyd of Cherrytrees ; W. B. Boyd of Faldonside ; Thomas 

 Brewis, Edinburgh ; D. Craighead, Galashiels ; William Currie, 

 of Linthill ; Andrew Currie, Darnick ; Master C. Douglas, Edin- 

 burgh ; James T. S. Elliot, yr. of Wolfelee ; A. W. Henderson, 

 Cockburnspath ; W. H. Johnson, Edinburgh ; Eichard Lees, 

 Galashiels ; Eobert Mathison, Innerleithen ; Claude Ponsonby, 

 from The Glen ; A. E. Scougal, Melrose ; — Scougal, Melrose ; 

 Edward Tennent, yr. of The Glen ; Thomas Turnbull, Lilliesleaf ; 

 Charles Watson, P.S.A., Scot., Dunse ; James and David Wood, 

 Galashiels. 



Apologies for absence were received from the Marquis of 

 Tweeddale ; Professor Balfour, Edinburgh ; and Dr. WiUiam 

 Chambers of Glenormiston. 



Chiefly by means of notes supplied to me, I shall take up the to- 

 pography at the point left off in the Club's excursion to Ashiesteel 

 in 1878, First of all I follow an itinerary furnished by Miss Eus- 

 sell. ' ' After passing the fishing cottage of the Nest, or Caddonlee 

 Cottage, on the left hand, looking down on the roof of it, the oak 

 called Sir Walter Scott's may be seen in the Ashiesteel haugh, 

 apparently uninjured by the frosts which have taken so many old 

 forest trees, standing comparatively alone and on low ground. 

 The steep plantation along the Tweed to the west of the haugh, 

 the Eampy Wood, seems to owe its name to a bed of wild garlic, 

 which grows nowhere else in the immediate neighbourhood. The 

 railway passes through the slate rocks near Thornielee [Thornie- 

 lee Crags] ; slates re-appear on the Ashiesteel hill opposite. 

 From near Thornielee the original hill-road of the country went 

 over the hill at Laidlawstiel ; the slate cliff being then impass- 

 able." 



The Thornielee slates with their Graptolites and Annelide-marks 



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