52 Report of Meetings for 1885. By Jas. Hardy. 



and the hedges are weighted down with blooming white sheets of 

 Galium Motlugo. These are rather agreeable than otherwise to 

 the spectator or the botanist ; although contrary to the rules of 

 good management, whether of well-kept roadways or of high 

 class farms. 



We passed the village of "Wall which has some sandstone slated 

 houses and several others picturesquely thatched. After an 

 accession of numbers at Chollerford, and passing through one 

 end of Humshaugh, the company drew up at Hatjghton 

 Castle, and walking along a drive bordered with flowers back- 

 ed by shrubs, arrived in front of the mansion, where the Eev. G. 

 Ronie Hall was waiting to receive us. After conducting the 

 party round the exterior Mr Hall read his valuable paper, 

 which will be found in the Club's Proceedings. Mr Hodges then 

 explained the external and internal characteristics with reference 

 to their age and relations to structures of a similar character. 

 Most of the company followed the example of each other in 

 climbing the interminable turret stair, and in undergoing the 

 ordeal of the dark vaulted passages and cellars. After enjoying 

 the prospect, and becoming familiarised with the essentials of the 

 modernised old fortress, there was only time to look across the 

 intervening circuit of trees and the dashing river to Barrasford 

 village, which is reached by a primitive ferry-boat, worked by 

 an overhead rope and pulley. 



