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At 1-30 p.m. the members re-assembled near the vicarage, 

 and resuming their placea in the carriages were conveyed 



along the road which crosses Branxton Hill 

 Flodden to Blinkbonny, where they alighted and pro- 



Hill, ceeded on foot, by kind permission of Lord 



Joicey, through the wood which mantles the 

 crest of Flodden Hill on which King James had pitched 

 his camp after his invasion of English soil. The day was 

 not favourable for an extensive view, but sufficiently clear to 

 indicate the strength of the Scottish position, and the signal 

 advantage which was surrendered through the King's deter- 

 mination to meet the enemy on the plain below. Following 

 the path through the wood, members refreshed themselves at 

 Sybil's Well, mis-placed by the late Marchioness of Waterford 

 with little regard to topographical and historical accuracy. 

 On gaining the high-road to Ford, the route was continued 

 to Crookham, where from the garden of the Presbyterian 

 Manse, below which flows the Till, a view of the ford over 

 which Surrey's rear-guard was allowed to pass unmolested 

 was obtained. The drive was then resumed by Pallinsburn to 

 Cornhill, where the members dined in the CoUingwood Arms 

 Hotel at 4-30, and, after pledging the usual toasts, accorded 

 the President a special vote of thanks for his admirable 

 lecture and successful conduct of the excursion. 



Nominations in favour of Mr Reginald Collie, C.A., Stone- 



shiel, Reston ; Mr Alexander Cowan, Valleyfield, 

 Nomina- Penicuik ; and Mr H. Harold G. Lees, Galashiels, 

 tions. were duly intimated. 



