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"but to the memory of private friendship," had it been dedicated. 



Turning Eastward a little further on, the party 

 Guyzance descended a steep hill leading to Brainshaugh, 

 and in a meadow belonging to which are the remains 



Acklington. of the monastic cell of Guyzance, which seems 



to have been founded by the owner of Shilbottle, 

 and afterwards granted to the abbot and convent of Alnwick. 

 For a number of years the ruins remained in a neglected 

 condition, affording ample scope for the quarrying propensities 

 of the neighbours ; but latterly they have been enclosed with 

 a wall and pointed with cement, the removal at the same 

 time of a large accumulation of soil and rubbish having laid 

 bare the beautiful base of one of the ancient columns, as well 

 as sundry carved stones. The burial-ground is still open to 

 the inhabitants of Brainshaugh and Guyzance, and since the 

 constitution of Acklington into a separate parish in 1859, and 

 the erection there of a handsome church by Algernon, Duke 

 of Northumberland, the Service for the burial of the dead has 

 devolved on the vicar of that parish. The main object in 

 visiting this neighbourhood, however, was to view the pictur- 

 esque horse-shoe fall on the Coquet caused by the erection in 

 1776-1778 of a cauld by John Smeaton, the designer of the 

 old Eddy stone Lighthouse, to which is attributed the dearth 

 of salmon in the upper reaches of the river. In spite of a 

 certain artificiality, the water falling over it in equal volume 

 along its whole length, the linn possesses remarkable beauty, 

 being set in a frame-work of natural brushwood and overhang- 

 ing trees. An added charm on the occasion was the brilliant 

 sunshine which revealed to great advantage a variety of 

 rainbow effects upon the tumbling water. 



A quarter of an hour's further driving brought the members 



to Acklington, where dinner was served in the 

 Club Railway Hotel at 4-30. The Secretary intimated 



Dinner. a donation of the History of Kelso Grammar School 



by the author, Mr James Smith, Kelso, convener of 



the Curators of the Tweedside Physical and Antiquarian Society. 



A nomination in favour of Mr Oliphant 



Nomina= Smeaton, M.A., F.S.A. (Scot.), Edinburgh, was 



tion. duly intimated. 



