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H. Williamson, Whickham ; G. P. Wilkinson, Harperley Park ; 

 E. F. Colvin, Teviothead ; E. F. Proudfoot, Fogo ; Drs. David 

 Skinner, Lauder ; G. E. Shirra-Gibb, Boon ; Messrs Thomas 

 Broomfield, Lander ; Eobert Eomanes, Lauder ; John Turnbull, 

 Abbey St Bathans ; J. S. Mack, Coveyheugh ; George Muirhead, 

 Paxton ; Peter Loney, Marchmont ; T. Craig Brown, Selkirk ; 

 James Wood, Galashiels; Middleton H. Dand, Hauxley ; W. 

 T. Hindmarsh, Alnwick ; J. L. Newbigin, Alnwick ; Charles 

 Watson, Duns; W. A. Hunter, Duns; John Ferguson, Duns; 

 A. G. Spence, Boon ; E. Murray, Galashiels, etc. 



The fourth meeting of the Club was held at Peebles on Wed- 

 nesday, August 25. As this was the Club's first visit to the 

 chief town of upper Tweeddale, a large company took advantage 

 of it. I partly again avail myself of a report by Mr G. S. 

 Douglas, but as in a previous instance most of the relation is 

 my own. 



To illustrate the account, the Messrs Chambers have obliged 

 me with electros from a selection of the cuts used in the "History 

 of Peeblesshire, by William Chambers," Edinburgh, 1864, 

 which will bring some of the places visited more vividly to view, 

 and also serve as a memorial of a charming day, pleasantly and 

 profitably spent. 



After breakfast in the Commercial Hotel, and a large collection 

 of beautiful Alpine and herbaceous plants, brought by Mr Muir- 

 head from his garden at Paxton, had been examined, the 

 members who had increased to upwards of thirty, waited till the 

 appointed time of starting. At ten o'clock three well-horsed 

 brakes conveyed the party on their day's journey up the valle}' 

 of the Tweed, Professor Veitch of Glasgow having kindly con- 

 sented to act as guide. The first object to arrest attention was 

 the handsome new Parish Church then in process of erection at 

 the end of High Street, but now, when this is being written, 

 completed and opened. Passing through the Old Town, the 

 party saw the tower of St Andrew's Church, which, having been 

 re-pointed, though the rest of the edifice has well nigh dis- 

 appeared, looks as if it would stand for a long time. A drive of 

 about a mile brought the visitors to Neidpath Castle, where the 

 first halt was made. 

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