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and then above it we have Low Blakehope ; High Blakehope, 

 still higher, being concealed in a " lirk of the hills." Cushat 

 Law frequently showed itself as we came up. 



Arriving at Greave's Ash, an abridgement of Mr Tate's 

 description (Hist, of Club, Vol. rv., pp. 293-316) was read to 

 the assembled members, who then dispersed, guided by the Rev. 

 Peter Mearns, to examine its construction. Mr Tate's plan I 

 may mention has been re-produced in Mr Gomme's work on 

 Village Communities, the publisher having asked liberty. Since 

 the Club's excavations, Lycopodium clavatum has taken possession 

 of the floor of one of the hut-circles. Kecently another broken 

 quern has been found among the ruins by a shepherd, who 

 presented it to Mr G. H. Thompson, Alnwick. We do not 

 require to repeat what Mr Tate has already said so well. 



The sheep tracks to the Linns are rough with heather and 

 sharp stones. A fine broom-bush was blooming freely, for the 

 soil is dry, but this is perhaps the nearest approach this shrub 

 makes to the hills. The deep shady recess of the lower linns, 

 where there are two waterfalls in succession, is the most worthy 

 of a visit, for the open linn is a mere " spout." There are here 

 under the shade some fine smooth masses of Zygodon Mougeotii, red 

 Bryum tufts with purple apothecia^ and green Jungermannise. 



The following is a list of the best of the Mosses in the vicinity 

 of the Linns : — Dicranum ma jus, Bryum crudum, B. Wahlenlergii, 

 B. pseudo-triquetrum, B. p aliens, B. alpinum, Mnium stellare (below 

 the Lower Falls) Physcomitrium ericetorum, (abundant near the 

 "Spout") Isothecium alopecurum, Hypnum heteropterum, H. 

 commutatum, and Hooker in lucens. The wild flowers were 

 Geranium sylvaticum, Wood Anemone, Primroses, Tormentil, 

 Blue Violet, Milkwort, Fox-glove, Lotus corniculatus, Lysimachia 

 nemorum, Thymus serpyllum, Cardamine sylvatica, Chrysosplenium 

 oppositifolium, Carex binervis, Pedicularis sylvatica. It was too 

 early for the Hieracia. The ferns were Polypodium Bryopteris, 

 Lastrea oreopteris, L. Filix-mas, and Blechnum boreale. The Beech 

 and Brittle-ferns escaped detection. The hollowed cavernous 

 space between the banks and enclosing the two lower water-falls, 

 is shaded with birches and mountain ashes. In one of these 

 trees a pair of Ravens during the present spring had reared 

 three young ones ; two of these had been either shot or captured 

 by the gamekeeper, and the third escaped. A wicked-looking 

 pole-trap was placed, for their capture, among the rocks on the 



