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plan of the Roman barracks discovered during the winter months 

 at Cappuck, on the Oxnam Water, with measurements. The 

 drawing 1 , not yet completed, appears to be a faithful representation 

 of the position of the Eoman station, so far as it has been 

 excavated. The field in which it is situated is under crop. Mr 

 Currie also sent a drawing- of a curious old dial, surmounted by 

 an inscription in Runic (?) characters, froniNewstead. Likewise 

 he has made a pen and ink sketch of a fine upper window of an 

 old down-coming house in Xcwstead. There is a date on it of 

 1615. This house is k> said to have been the Mason Lodge of the 

 Guild of Masons about the time of the building of Melrose 

 Abbey." The stone, much wasted, is red sandstone from the 

 Eildon Hills. Mr John Anderson, Preston, sent larch-fir cones 

 nibbled by squirrels, which had caused them to assume peculiar 

 shapes. Some had been converted into double-arched cones 

 united at the top so as to form a complete ring. There were 

 transitional forms also, where the cones, not completely bitten 

 through, were still entire and flattened out above the base, 

 forming broad compressed ovate " fir-tops." 



Mr Pow, Dunbar, sent a Sanderling, nearly in its summer 

 dress, from near Dunbar, where it had been arrested in its 

 passage to Arctic lands ; and a Yellow Wagtail [Motacilla Rayi) 

 from Thornton Loch, East Lothian. The Yellow Wagtail is on 

 the Berwickshire list, but it is very rare, although it is not 

 uncommon in the west of Fcotland. It is not so much attached 

 to water-sides as some of the other species. Thornton Loch is 

 only about three miles from the nearest point of Berwickshire. 



A very interesting article/' a ball-extractor," also from Dunbar 

 was a large double screw, which had been fitted to a ramrod to 

 extract the wadding when damped from a blunderbuss or small 

 field-piece. A small iron bullet, weighing 3f ounces, accompanied 

 it. These had been obtained near the Doon Hill of Spot, and 

 had been lying covered up in the soil ever since the battle of 

 Dunbar, 4th September, 1650. Large quantities of ammunition 

 were left on the field by the Scots when they fled in a panic. 

 Cromwell bears testimon}' to this, which he recapitulates in a 

 sentence: — "We killed (as most think) 3600; took near 10,000 

 prisoners, all their train, about 30 guns, great and small, besides 

 bullet, match, aud powder; very considerable officers ; about 

 200 colours, above 10,000 arms ; lost not 30 men." 



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