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on the river were Sand Martins and Swallows ; the Sedge 

 Warbler was heard ; but no playful Sand-piper circled round- 



There were fine sections of the Tuedian strata exposed on the 

 southern bank, lying neariy horizontal. The Tuedian shales 

 near Blanerne and Broomhouse have yielded to the collectors of 

 the Ordnance Survey, several new and interesting species of 

 Sehizopodous Crustacea shortly to be described by Mr Peach. 

 They are like the Eedesdale species, (see Mr Hugh Miller's 

 Otterburn Memoir, p. 84), mostly of the genera Anthropolmnon 

 and Palceocrangon. 



Broomhouse was reached nearly opposite Marden by a wire 

 suspension bridge across the river. The house, which is new, 

 includes within it the walls of an old peel-tower — is xil ample 

 dimensions and built in a castellated style, and stands, well 

 sheltered by old trees, in a delightful situation. The Club had 

 been honoured with an invitation to luncheon by Mr. Clapham, 

 the occupant at the time of the mansion, and his hospitality was 

 very much appreciated. Mr. Clapham afterwards joined the 

 company at dinner. The lineage of the Homes or Humes of 

 Broomhouse will be found in Burke's " Landed Q-entry." Like 

 several of the Merse landholders, they were attached to the 

 Jacobite cause; but subsequent to the disaster of 1745, the 

 estates were recovered. This Broomhouse is not to be confounded 

 with the Roxburghshire Broomhouse, near Littledean, burned 

 in 1545 by Sir Ralph Eure, "with its lady, a noble and aged 

 woman, her children, and her whole family ; " a deed of wanton 

 cruelty that whetted the revenging swords of the Scots at the 

 battle of Ancrum Moor. See Ridpath's Border Hist., p. 553, 

 note; Lesley, p. 455. 



Again on foot under a new conductor (Mr Ferguson) the route 

 led past the field where De la Beaute was slain by David Home 

 of Wedderburn, September 9th, 1517 ; and Mr Muirhead, 

 when opposite, gave a summary of the position of the site of his 

 grave, and a short outline of the event. The proprietor, Captain 

 Logan-Home, it is understood, intends to erect a memorial stone 

 as near its position as can now be ascertained, for the original 

 stone has been removed and the grave mound levelled. There 

 is at present a crop of oats on " Bawtie's Bog." Till recently it 

 was a peat moss, and a reed and rush producing swamp at the 

 base of a Kaim, where water used to stagnate in winter, but it 

 has now been thoroughly drained ; and no one lias any reason to 



