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profile on the summit of the hill. Their relation to each other 

 will be best perceived from the plan of the group transferred 

 from the 25 inches scale of the Ordnance Map. When the com- 

 pany had all assembled on the ridge, it looked as if the forts had 

 been again suddenly manned by a tribe of ancient hill-men to 

 whom they once belonged. They were described by Dr Brydon 

 on the Club's former visit in 1873, vol. vn., pp. 77, 78. I will 

 not venture to conjecture like him that they are probably the 

 "ruins of Gadenica, the ancient capital of the Gadeni." Mr 

 Winning has taken th.e great trouble of measuring these camps. 

 The cut was finished before it could be lettered. Taking the 

 camps in two rows there are Bow I. which is from W. to E. on 

 the north, beginning with the largest — 1, 2, 3 ; and Row II. on 

 the south, beginning with the smaller, 4, 5. 



Bow I. (1) 198 feet by 149 feet. (2) 66 feet by 90 feet. (3) 

 105 feet by 81 feet. 



Bow II. (4) 66 feet by 54 feet. (5) 94 feet by 93 feet. 



The well is excluded from the plan, but it lay to the west of 

 the largest camp, No. 1 outside the circuit. 



No practical natural history observations were made, but 

 Bntrychium Lunaria, that Dr Douglas saw on last visit, fell to 

 the Secretary's lot also on this second peregrination. Mr Waugh 

 said that Gnaphalium dioicum grows on the hill-tops near the 

 Chapelhill forts. The black-bodied, red-legged, heavy fly, 

 Bibio Johannis, was hovering about ; the black B. Marci is its 

 counterpart in spring. The camps are also selected by the 

 j^ellow and black banded Sericomi/ia borealts, to repose upon in 

 the sunny daj'S, and emit its piping song — 



"An Elfin sound, charming the listless air ;" 

 or from its station give chase to every other intruding fly of its 

 own tribe. 



The two lakes or pools in the hollows on the west side of the 

 Camp hill, are Eastern and Western Branxholme lakes ; from the 

 Western one, marl had once been extracted, when the remains 

 of Bed Deer antlers shewed that this wild had been roamed by 

 the free denizens of the forest of Ettrick before the peaceful race 

 of sheep had been introduced. Great oaks were said to be 

 occasionally met with in the peat pits. 



The site of Chapelhill chapel was pointed out. There is very 

 little known about it. It is alluded to in both the Statistical 

 Accounts, the latest averring, p. 92, that "curates from Hassen- 



