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Birling ; Mr James Tait, Cockhall, Edlingharn ; Mr John B ilain, 

 Bilton ; Mr Samuel Mason, Heckley House ; Mr W. N. Strange- 

 ways, Newcastle ; Mr William Gruthrie, Hawick ; Mr E. Elliot 

 Rutherford, Hawick ; Mr James Heatley, Alnwick ; Mr A. Craig, 

 Edinburgh ; MrT. Craig- Brown, Selkirk ; Mr Eobert Middlemas 

 and Mrs. Middlemas, Alnwick; Mr George Bolam, Berwick ; Mr 

 J. L. Newbigin, Alnwick; and others. Major Burrell, Col. R. 

 E. Carr, Duuston Hill, and Mr R. G. Bolam, also joined in part 

 of the walk. 



The followiug were proposed for membership, Major- General 

 J. J. Boswell, C.B., Darnlee, Melrose; Hugh Macphersou 

 Leadbetter, Legerwood, Earlston ; Rev. George Cook, Longfor- 

 macus, Duns; and as a Lidy Member, Mrs. Paul, Roxburgh 

 Manse. 



Kirknewton, Heathpool, Coupland Castle. 



Owiag to the unsuitability of the weather for a visit to Cheviot, 

 one of the main objects of this day's meeting was frustrated, and 

 the peregrinations of members were restricted within narrow 

 compass, and over ground that had been thoroughly investigated. 

 A less beaten track may be taken from Mindrum in 1889, which 

 may compensate for disappointments on the present occasion. I 

 have adopted the account of the reporter of the Newcastle Journal, 

 to which I contributed the list of members present, and have 

 supplemented it with some observations of my own by way of 

 comment. 



Wednesday the 27th June, was the day fixed for the second 

 meeting. The locality fixed upon for visiting was the magnificent 

 hill country in the neighbourhood of Kirknewton and Coupland 

 Castle. 



The morning broke dull and damp, but in the hope that as 

 the morning advanced the clouds would pass away, a considerable 

 number of gentlemen and one lady left their beds at an early 

 hour and proceeded to the rendezvous — viz., Kirknewton 

 Station. Very few started from Newcastle, but at various points 

 on the journey several others joined them, and the little party 

 received a fairly respectable accession to their numbers at 

 Alnwick. When they met the Berwick and neighbourhood 

 contingent and those belonging the immediate neighbourhood at 



