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down the centre of the blade almost to the point, and pierced by 

 two rivet-holes near the butt. The knife has a short oval socket 

 with two rivet-holes, and a narrow blade, shaped like the blade 

 of a short bronze sword." Dr Page writes: " The whole of these 

 were found by some labourers engaged in making a cutting 

 down to the sea-shore at Newbiggen-by-the-Sea, in June 1878. 

 My late father, Dr Page, Professor of Geology in the University 

 of Durham, happened to be staying at Newbiggen at the time, 

 and visiting the spot during the excavation, secured the relics. 

 Others not so perfect were also found, and passed into other 

 hands. There were no remains of pottery or bones found." 



Being disabled on this occasion, I was unable to follow out 

 the route ; and three of us, Mr Longstaffe, Mr G. H. Thompson, 

 and myself, resolved to contribute our small quota to diversify 

 the day's work. "We followed for a, certain distance in the wake 

 of our more nimble companions, and then by a circuit among 

 field-paths and country lanes reached Woodhorn. It was 

 obvious at the first glance of the moor, that we were too early 

 for any practical work on the waste ground of this bleak part of 

 the coast. The lark rose in shrill song, and the wary lapwing 

 hovered here and there. The white water Ranunculus (with 

 two forms of leaves — the broad and the fringed) blooming in one 

 of the pools whence brick-earth had been extracted, caught our 

 admiration, as it had done that of those who preceded us. We 

 saw nothing else of any size ; but in a baylet there Ave observed 

 numerous minute red corpuscles floating in separate masses, 

 whose nearest analogue so far as it could be ascertained from 

 dry specimens, was the Hoematoccus sanguineus, or red-snow. We 

 had not a phial to preserve this supposed Alga for examination ; 

 but it is worth looking after. On the earthen wall of the sea- 

 side fields. Feclia olitoria was in blossom ; and in the grass a 

 variegated leaved daisy, — green with pale veins— as good as the 

 garden variety — was picked up. We went up by a country 

 road between poorly-kept hedges where the sedge-warbler was 

 singing merrily, and some ducks were performing their ablutions 

 in the dirty pond of a small farm-place. Again turning round 

 southwai'ds on a broad lane towards Woodhorn village, the 

 sedge-warbler and the willow-warbler broke out into music, the 

 swallows skimmed past, and the air felt warm. It was too early 

 for the Andrenid*©, 



