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represent comets."* About 100 yards to the North is a 

 barrow under which were interred the remains of some ancient 

 Briton, to whom doubtless the use of these strange devices 

 had a definite meaning ; but as far as scientific investigation 

 has at present gone, no conclusive explanation of them has 

 been arrived at. 



Time permitted of a ramble over the adjacent moorland, 

 but no capture or discovery of note was made by those who 



engaged in it. At 3-30 p.m. the return journey 

 Club by the same route was begun, and Wooler was 



Dinner. reached in the course of an hour. Dinner 



was served in the Cottage Hotel, and the 

 customary toasts were duly pledged. 



* Ber. Nat. Clnb, Vol. v., Part 2, pp. 137-179. 



