68 Report of the Meetings for 1894. 



Mr Fergusson afterwards indicated the part of the wood 

 where Orohanche is still found, adding that it also grows at 

 Bothal Haugh, on the other bank of the river. The wood 

 ends just at Bothal Mill, once a busy place when the miller 

 ground the grain, grown in the parish, into meal and flour ; 

 now used only as the estate saw mill. Ere long there will 

 not be a corn water mill in Northumberland. 



The village of Bothal is a rural picture. It has practically 

 been rebuilt within the last twenty years. When the party 

 was seated in the nave of the Church, Mr Walker read a 

 paper, which, at his request, had been written for the Club's 

 visit by the Eev. The Hon. W. C. Ellis, MA., Eector of 

 the parish. Mr Ellis has favoured the Club with a copy 

 of the paper, see afterwards. 



The features mentioned in the paper were then examined. 

 A new stained glass window in the Chancel gable was much 

 admired. Mr Fergusson briefly stated the main facts which 

 made it historically interesting, though quite fresh from the 

 studio and works of Messrs Atkinson Brothers, Newcastle. 



A move was then made to the Castle, in the great hall 

 of which Mr Walker read extracts from Mr Cadwallader 

 Bates' account of it in the Border Holds of Northumberland 

 and the Archceologia Aeliana, q.v. 



The river was then crossed by a private bridge which leads 

 into the grounds of Bothal Haugh, a new house which Mr 

 Ellis built for himself, some years ago, on the south side 

 of the Wansbeck. It stands high up on the summit of the 

 escarpment made by the river. The sloping banks of that 

 escarpment have been converted into a shrubbery and a 

 garden chiefly for herbaceous plants. Of the best of these 

 a list will follow. 



While dinner was proceeding, a Saw-fly, which had been 

 caught only a few hours before at the shop door of Mr 

 Schofield, Chemist, Newgate Street, was sent down by him 

 to Mr Walker for the inspection of the members. It was 

 an excellent specimen. Every season they frequent the 

 banks of the river just above where the Lady Chapel Wood 

 begins. [The specimen was not submitted to an entomologist, 

 and may not have been rare.] 



