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would enable climbers in the event of favourable weather 

 to overtake a visit to Hen Hole, and to acquire a knowledge 

 of the course of the river from its source to its junction 

 with the Glen. Its channel like so many in the near 

 vicinity of mountain ranges is broad and broken, indicative 

 of the great floods which prevail on the melting of the upland 

 snow, and only at Hethpool, where it is bounded by steep, 

 rocky banks, does it contract and become unfordable. The 

 picturesque Linn at this point has always presented attractions, 

 and on this occasion it formed one of the objects of interest 

 for the other section of the party, who arrived at Kirknewton 

 about an hour before noon. Among them were Mr Henry 

 Rutherfurd, President; Captain Norman, R.N., Organizing 

 Secretary; Rev. J. Burleigh, and Mrs Burleigh, Ednam; Mr 

 Robert Carmichael, and Mrs Oarmichael, Coldstream; Sir 

 George B. Douglas, Bart., Springwood Park; Dr R. Shirra 

 Gibb, Boon; Mr J. Lindsay Hilson, Kelso; Dr Thos. Hodgkin, 

 Barmoor Castle ; Mr George P. Hughes, Middleton Hall ; 

 Mr William Maddan, Berwick; Rev. W. McOonachie, B.D., 

 Lauder; Colonel A. H. Saunders, R.A., Overbury ; and Miss 

 Simpson, Coldingham. The route selected lay along the left 



bank of the CoUedge by a path which may 

 Hethpool. be traced for some distance from the bridge 



crossing the river, as it winds amid brake 

 and brushwood over the Eastern shoulder of Hethpool Bell, 

 affording beautiful glimpses of the valley and surrounding 

 hills. By it the party reached the hamlet of Hethpool, now 

 comprising only a few labourers' cottages, but marking the 

 site of an ancient pele-tower, which Sir Robert Bowes in his 

 survey of the Borders in 1550 describes as "a lytle stone 

 house or pyle which ys a great releyffe to the ten'nts thereof." 

 The walls, which are covered with ivy, still testify to its 

 defensive character, being of considerable thickness. In 

 connection with it may be recalled the interesting fact 

 that on being raised to the peerage in 1805, Admiral 

 Collingwood assumed the title of Baron Collingwood of 

 Caldburne and Hethpoole, having succeeded to this property 

 through his wife, to whom, in proof of his solicitude for the 

 supply of material for the construction of British war ships, he 

 wrote in the following year:— "It is very agreeable to me to 



