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in Northumberland shire." (Edition of 1655, p. 155 ; also 

 LovelTs " Hist, of Animals," Oxford, 1661, p. 233). No vestige 

 of this fishery survives in modern times. Then passing Budle 

 House, and within sight of Spiudleston hills, about Dukesfield, 

 there opens out a fine view of Bamburgh Castle, towering up 

 like a pyramid, and almost undistinguishable from its basal 

 rock. Among the craggy heights round — Budle and Brady 

 Crags — I collected, having gone there for the purpose, the Col- 

 eopterous Insects to which the locality of " Budle Crag " is 

 attached, recorded in the " Catalogue of the Coleoptera of 

 Northumberland and Durham," that appeared in the early 

 volumes of the " Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field 

 Club ; little thinking then that " haec olim meminisse juvabit." 

 Glororum, Burton, and Bamburgh Friars appear successively. 

 On the latter, we are told that recent excavations have been 

 made, with unknown result. 



The village and castle are left behind, and the fantastically 

 ridged benty sand-hills, and yellow rag-weed-clustered flats 

 (great nursery of the caterpillars of Euchelia Jacobew) are skirted. 

 The Fame Islands always bare, look their best, amidst the 

 unruffled waters of this quiet day. Inland, the hill ridges, 

 magnified by the prevalent moisture, stand in their ranks, each 

 eminence retaining its distinctive individuality. Beyond Monks- 

 house, a rivulet is crossed, and we see Fowberry, Old and New 

 Shoreston, and Shoreston Hall, the last mentioned places being 

 the modern substitute of an old " villata " or Village Community 

 of the Saxon and early Norman period. The coast becomes 

 rocky as North Sunderland Sea-houses are reached, and at 

 North Sunderland Point or Snook, we are introduced to the 

 series of strata that are to form, the subject of the day's 

 observations. The disused lime-kilns and deserted granaries 

 here, are melancholy tokens of the recent decay of a once 

 prosperous industry. After crossing Swinhoe burn, and passing 

 Annstead, the road turned up to Beaduell, a lengthy village 

 among sheltering trees, the representative of the Bedenhall of 

 the olden time, when it was held in drengage by a family who 

 took their surname from it, which subsequently modified into 

 Beaduell, was not without local distinction, although never 

 attaining permanent importance. On arrival, most of the company 

 had preceded us, for we had had a long drive. The Alnwick 

 moinbers mentioned that they had remarked of the Ash trees 



