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stood a line of walls of the offices, where the huildings were very 

 extensive. It is now a potato-garden, hearing a luxuriant crop 

 of foliage. In the stable was suspended a pentagonal sandstone, 

 with an artificially drilled hole in it, near the broadest end, 

 pointed out as a "witch-stone" to protect the horses; also an 

 old iron key> very simple, adapted for a lock of two wards. On 

 entering the adjacent mill, the original purpose of the holed 

 stone was soon apparent ; for a similar but heavier stone of a 

 coarse grit was attached by a rope to a portion of the mill works, 

 as a weight to regulate the flow of the water ; the heavier the 

 weight the supply was increased. The witch-stone of the stable 

 had been too light. The fittings in the interior of the mill were 

 much older than the recently added, over-shot wheel. The 

 fanners were of an old fashion. The tin basin for moulter was 

 there also. The flag-slated roof has fallen in, and everything is 

 going to wreck ; there being no longer use for a mill here. 

 Marchantiapolymorpha mantled the walls near the wheel, a common 

 concomitant of old mills in that district. Geranium pratenae and 

 "Good King Henry" were everywhere. This is a favourite 

 resort of the Pied Wagtails, which were gambolling about full of 

 animatiou. The burn is margined by alders, and was followed 

 up, till it was entered by Dove Crag Burn. This issued from a 

 cleugh, with picturesquely fractured, steep rocky cliffs of Fell- 

 stone Sandstone, disposed at rather a high angle ; closed in and 

 shaded by light native birches, oaks, etc. Campville house 

 stands close beside this dean. The old camp rings in front of 

 Campville are very prominent and entire ; and some massive oaks 

 and fine hawthorns grow among them. The beeches are probably 

 of latter introduction. In the sloping meadow in front of the 

 house, Ilabetuiria chlorantha was picked up, and much purple 

 Uetony, on whose leaves Mr Dunlop found Puccinia Betonica, 

 which is of some rarity. The Betony had been noticed in a 

 meadow at Swindon lower down on the Coquet ; also in pastures 

 at Brown Moor near Harbottle Grange. The President reported 

 Pohjpocllum Dryopteris from the cleugh ; and P. phegopteris grows 

 farther up. Meantime Eob Roy's Cave'" was visited, a pretty 

 retired recess, but not a cave ; being merely a lower portion of 

 the rock split out as if it had been once quarried, alongside a 



* Sometime the Club may return to explore the romantic ravine, which 

 is reputed to be still Fairy-haunted. What is of more importance it is 

 said to be botanically rich. 



