$8 Report of Meetings for 188?. By J. Hardy. 



Mr Thompson says " The inscription is very simple, and the 

 only wonder is that it was considered a mystery at all. The first 

 line would probably be the name of the builder." The house 

 may be as old as the Commonwealth ; at least it speaks of an 

 age with reverence for Scripture texts. There is no space at 

 present for the history of Felton, and several other of the places 

 visited. 



There were present at this meeting : — Rev. David Paul, 

 Roxburgh, President ; James Hardy, Oldcambus, Secretary ; 

 Rev. Ambrose Jones, Stannington ; Rev. John Walker, Whalton; 

 William B. Boyd, Faldonside ; Rev. James I. Dand, Togstone 

 House ; Middleton H. Dand, Hauxley Cottage ; J. C. Hodgson, 

 BuSton Vale ; John Hogg, Quixwood ; Capt. Norman, R. N. 

 Berwick ; G. H. Thompson, Alnwick ; John James Horsley, 

 Alnwick ; Robert Middleman, Alnwick, Treasurer ; Ralph G. 

 Huggup, Togstone ; Edward Thew, Birling House, Warkworth; 

 Juhn Bolam, Bilton ; James Thomson, Shawdon ; Eev. Canon 

 Ilderton, Ilderton ; Rev. George 15. Fenwick, Felton ; Rev. E. H. 

 Adamson, Felling. Edward Thew, Birling House, and Benjamin 

 Morton, Agent to the Trinity Board, Sunderland, were proposed 

 for membership. 



Alwinton, the Dhatce Stone, Hakbottle Lough, Harbottle, 

 Holystone, Biddleston. 



The third Meeting took place at Alwinton, on July 27th, under 

 rather unpromising meteorological conditions, but eventually no 

 one had reason to be dissatisfied. 



Departing from Biddleston in company with Mr Dodds, who 

 gave us the benefit of his skilled guidance and expeiience, the 

 farm of Newton was passed, where -an oak tree had been pre- 

 served by the side of the road, when it was widened, to which the 

 farmer in past times used to come out in the evening from his 

 dwelling near by, and have a smoke and "crack" with his friends 

 or associates. It was scarcely a "kepping tree," but served the 

 purpose of the sod or stone seat outside the door, where ancient 

 sociality was wont to be displayed. Farther on the Newton 

 limestone crops out, and the remains of the excavations in it, and 

 of the hollows where it was converted into lime are still visible. 

 It belongs to the lower Tuedian series, but did not command a 

 remunerative sale. It was impregnated with magnesia. A 

 superior limestone of the Carboniferous series, and much higher 



