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The carriages owing to the rough and precipitous nature 

 of the road having gone on before, the members proceeded 

 on foot to the top of a high ridge overlooking the valleys of 

 the Caldgate and the Careburn, whence on a clear day a very 

 fine prospect opens, with Skirlnaked in the immediate fore- 

 ground and Cheviot ranging far and vast to the West and 

 South-West. Unfortunately the warm haze of the September 

 noon obscured the higher peaks, though it lent charm and 

 mystery to the wild mountain scenery. At the junction of the 

 waters already mentioned the greater number of the members 

 resumed their seats, and continued the drive as far as Langley- 

 ford and Hawsden Burn, while others adopted 

 Langley- the alternative route of walking up the Careburn, 

 ford. and crossing Wooler Common by Reastead to 



Wooler. So elaborately has this instructive 

 locality been dealt with in the Proceedings by Dr Hardy, 

 whose knowledge of the vicinity as a natural hunting-ground 

 was unique, and whose examination of its Entomology, as 

 furnished in a paper specially contributed,* leaves almost 

 nothing to be noted, that it seems worse than useless to 

 attempt to supply what has already been so brilliantly 

 served up. The time-table on the present occasion allowed 

 of two hours and a half for rambling about Langleyford, 

 during which an opportunity was afforded of searching 

 Hawsden Burn for Amethystine Quartz. In the course of 

 the ramble a member was fortunate in picking up, on a 

 portion of the road under repair, a fairly perfect flint 

 scraper. Dippers were sighted on the Careburn, and Carex 

 laevigata was plentiful in copses. The botanical section had 

 nothing of special interest to report. 



Leaving Langleyford at 3-15 p.m., the party returned to 

 • Wooler, where dinner was served in the Cottage 

 Club Hotel at 4-30. The President exhibited an 



Dinner. antique watch, made by Mr Andrew Maule, 



Wooler, on whose enamelled dial were depicted 

 a shepherd with his sheep upon the hillside, and the figure 

 of a church or castle in the centre, all suggestive of the 

 features of the immediate locality. 



* Ber. Nat. Olub, Vol. vr., Part iv., pp. 390-5. 



