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BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club at 

 Berwick, 13th October 1910. By Rev. Matthew Culley, 

 Coupland Castle, President. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



In surveying the many and varied phases which the 

 history of our Scottish and English border-land presents 

 to us, none is of more interest on purely historical grounds 

 than the gradual development of the existing Border line 

 and its subsequent and consequent methods of defence. 

 The romance of Border story is so interwoven with the 

 existing " March," or line of demarcation between England 

 and Scotland, that it is at times diflScult to realise the 

 fact that for some centuries of our known history the 

 land of the Scots was not co-terminous with its present 

 Southern boundary, and that the Northern extremit37^ of 

 the various races which made up the country of the 

 Northumbrians lay rather towards the Forth than along 

 the Tweed. 



