Scottish and Skandinavian Floras. B3' Dr Stuart. 81 



He also copied another inscription on what would appear to be a 

 restoration. 



S 



H . D 



1780. 



These are probably the initials of Henry Dodds who voted for a freehold 



in Sharpertonin 1774. {Poll Book, p. 184). James Dodds voted for the 



same in 1826 (lb. p. 41), and I see another James Dodds still enrolled. 



Michael Potts of Sharperton, co. Northumberland, vintner, was a witness 

 against K. Charles I., Jan. 24, 1648. See the characters of the witnesses 

 in Kennet's Hist, of England, in. p. 168. 



William Potts of Lanternside, p. 49, died there Jan. 17, 1773, in tba 

 107th year of his age. (Richardson's Table-Book, n. p. 214). 



Contrasts between the Scottish and Skandinavian Floras, 

 with a few remarks on the Scenery. liy Charles 

 Stuart, M.D., Chirnside. 



In a short tour in the Hardanger region of Norway, under- 

 taken with the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club, in August 1887, 

 I had an opportunity of comparing the Alpine Floras of both 

 countries, as well as the general character of the scenery of 

 Norway with that of Scotland. Norway is a grand country to 

 travel in, everything being different from our own — people, 

 houses, and plants. The houses are built of wood ; in colour, 

 brown, red, or yellow ; the churches also are of wood, with 

 strange looking steeples ; pine-clad hills : ' ' water ! water 

 everywhere," with large masses of mountain rising out of the 

 water with considerable uniformity in their configuration and sky 

 line. In Scotland their configuration and sky line is to the 

 picturesque advantage of that country, when compared with 

 many of the mountain masses seen in the Hardanger region. In 

 Norway there is also a want of animal life, which produces a 

 melancholy "eerie" feeling which the tourist rarely experiences 

 in Scotland. Lonely and solitary Norway undoubtedly is. No one 

 ever told me so ; for although I was always in cheerful company, 

 I felt it so to be when separated from my companions on the 

 hillsides. The people are an honest-faced race ; simple in their 

 ways, and very civil aud obliging. They are however very 

 independent, and there is neither fawning nor cringing in their 

 manners. 



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