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foot or more long of the Kudoo, a Cape Antelope (Ant 

 Strepsiceros, Pallas, Cuv. Regne Animal, i. p. 272) ; with silver 

 chain attached for a hammer to knock on the lid ; a bodkin to 

 stir up the snuff; and a spade to project it into the nostrils. 

 The snuff-box was presented to the Burgh of Lauder by Francis 

 Dashwood, Esq., and the following is the inscription : — 



' ' FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 

 FRANCIS DASHWOOD, ESQ., 



TO THE 

 BURGH OF LAUDER, 1812. 

 R. VALLANCE, J. WATSON, 

 MAGISTRATES."* 



(2.) The fine silver chain of the Hardies of Tollis-hill, which 

 is already described, and its history given, in the " Proceedings," 

 vol. vi., pp. 7-9. (3.) An iron ball found at Wanton-walls, 

 weight 2 lbs. ^ oz., of small size. (4.) An old flat quern made 

 of buhr stone, in fine condition, found 4 feet under the surface, 

 at Drummond Hill, 1 A mile from Lauder, (o.) A large ball of 

 bastard quartz found within 40 feet of Tollis-hill ; like an orna- 

 mental stone fur the top of the pillar of a garden gate. (6.) A 

 purer quartz stone roughly circular oblate, 1 6 inches in circum- 

 ference in one direction, and 13 in another; one side being 

 flatter than the other, with an artificial sub-triangular hollow in 

 the centre on each side ; possibly a sort of weapon or hammer- 

 stone ; found about 1856 at Jeaniefield on Blainslie Hill, by Mr 

 P. Torrie, an uncle of Mr Bain, merchant, Lauder, to whom it 

 belongs. (7.) A fine creeing-trough of red sandstone, from Mr 

 Pomanes's ground, the size of a swine's trough ; with an aperture 

 placed high up, for the chaff flying out at one side ; and another 

 on an opposite side lower down, to allow the water to escape 

 that washed the sand from among the decorticated barley in the 

 central cavity. In the course of the day it was mentioned that 

 a canary coloured Red-breast, a young bird of the year, frequented 

 Hari'yburn. 



Among those present were Mr Pobert Middlemas, Alnwick, 

 President ; Mr James Hardy, Secretary ; Sir George B. Douglas, 

 Bart., Springwood Park; Revs. Thomas Martin, Lauder; R. 



* Anne, 6th daughter of James, 7th Earl of Lauderdale, married in 1793 

 to Francis, son of Sir F. Dashwood, who died in 1828. They had a family 

 (1.) Francis horn 1808, studied for the English Bar. (2.) Maitland. etc. 



