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The ultimate object of the excursion lay full in view to 



the North-West of the Lough, being the wild 

 Wanny and picturesque peaks named Wanny Crags, 



Cra^s. an exposed section of huge sandstone rocks, 



peculiarly abrupt and precipitous towards the 

 North. The ascent was gradual, over heather and abounding 

 mountain pasture, and was accomplished by one o'clock. From 

 the summit a very extensive view was obtained in all directions, 

 including the high ground on the West in the mid-distance, 

 called Green Rigg, memorable as the gathering-place of the 

 adherents of the Jacobite cause in Northumberland on the 

 occasion of their rising against the reigning house in 1715. 

 Towering to the North were the crests of Cheviot, and hidden 

 under a murky canopy towards the sea lay Ashington. A 

 feeling of remoteness pervaded the landscape, which an 

 occasional puff of steam from a labouring locomotive only 

 tended to accentuate. Along the ridge of the Crags, which 

 bear the local names of Great and Little Wanny, Aird Law, 

 and Hepple Heugh, the party gradually descended to the 

 road, where they joined the carriages, and commenced the last 

 stage of the excursion. During their ramble over the moors 

 and by the riverside the following plants were noted : — 

 RanuncuUts Jlammula ; Sagina nodosa ; Pimpinella saxifraga ; 

 Leontodon hispidus, and L. antumnalis var. pratensis ; Cardtius 

 heterophyllus ; Achillea Ptarmica ; Veronica serpyllifolia, and 

 V. sciUellata ; Symphytwiu officinale var. patens : Narthecitcm 

 ossi/ragum ; Carex binervis, C. ampullacea, and C. paludosa. 

 There was a notable absence of bird-life on the surface of 

 the lake, and upon the moorland. 



It was fully half-past two o'clock before they reached Kirk- 

 whelpington, and only a brief space was available for the 

 examination of the Parish Church ; but with the kind assistance 

 of the vicar, Rev. R. R. Hedley, and the technical knowledge 

 of Rev. Canon Walker, its somewhat mixed architectural 



features were rapidly surveyed. Dedicated to 

 Kirk- St. Bartholomew, it consists of a chancel, nave, 



whelping'ton and Western tower, with a modern South porch 

 Church. constructed of ancient stones. In the course 



of recent repairs executed by Mr W. S. Hicks, 

 architect, Newcastle, as instructed by a Restoration Committee, 

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