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threshing machine has not been used for the last two years, 

 not being wanted now, as most of the arable land on the 

 farm, as in some other parts of the country, has been 

 thrown into grass. Very little wheat now finds its way 

 to the mill, oats, for oatmeal and groats, being almost 

 the only grist. A black shed close to the river on the 

 opposite side where the ford connects with the public road 

 to Hutton has been erected for the convenience of people 

 who bring oats to the mill and find the river too high for 

 crossing. They can lodge their grain in the shed till the river 

 subsides. It is worth noticing that the water-supply for 

 Cawdorstanes is propelled for several hundred yards by a 

 self-acting hydraulic ram from a spring called Soap House 

 well in Soap House field, near the Bounds Eoad as it 

 approaches the Whitadder, and is so called, as in the case 

 of Starch House toll, because there was formerly a soap 

 factory in that field. 



After an examination of the Gastle well and the aforesaid 

 iron shaft, the members found time to proceed to the ford 

 on the Whitadder and enjoy a brief ramble about its 

 picturesque banks, over which Vicia sylvatica hung in wild 

 profusion. A little further up the river may be seen 

 Scroplmlaria nodosa, var. Ehrharti, growing vigorously along- 

 side the type. The bend of the river at this point is strikingly 

 beautiful, being confined on either side by wooded and 

 precipitous cliffs of sandstone. The return journey was 

 begun at 3-15, and Berwick was reached at 4 o'clock, when 

 dinner was served in the Eed Lion Hotel, and the customary 

 toasts duly pledged. 



A nomination in favour of Mr David H. W. Askew, Castle 

 Hills, Berwick, was intimated. The Secretary 

 Nomina= exhibited luxuriant sprays of Vicia Orobus, 



tion and a rare and beautiful Vetch, gathered at the 



Exhibit. station between Hillend and Blackhill, in the 



parish of Coldingham, from which it was 

 reported by Dr Hardy between thirty and forty years ago. 

 The plants of it in the locality are by no means numerous. 



