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fully in my paper on the Terraces of the Eiver Tay and its 

 tributaries,* and explain there the various theories which have 

 been advanced to account for these curious and interesting 

 phenomena. 



With regard to the Paleeontology of the district traversed, I 

 am informed by Mr Goodchild of the Geological Survey, that 

 nothing but the scales of Eoloptychius has been discovered in 

 the Upper Old Red of Berwickshire. The presence of this 

 fossil, however, proved that the rocks were Old Red. An 

 admirable Map embracing this district was published by the 

 Geological Survey in 1879 (Sheet 25), after Surveys by Sir 

 Archibald Geikie, Prof. James Geikie, and Mr B. N. Peach. 



Appendix II. 

 Notes on Redpath. By Mrs Wood, Galashiels. 



Directly opposite Drygrange, on the left bank of the Leader, 

 is the village of Redpath, pleasantly situated in the valley, and 

 sheltered on all sides by hills and thickly wooded heights. The 

 present village, it seems, is but a shadow of its former self, as it 

 is known to have been a thriving place in old times, with a 

 population of at least 600 ; and this fact is amply attested by 

 the numerous foundations of dwellings which we have seen, 

 from time to time, brought to light. Being under the 

 jurisdiction of the Abbey of Melrose, it is probable that that 

 connection may have contributed to its size and prosperity ; at 

 any rate its declension is traced back to the dispersion of the 

 monks at the Reformation. A row of houses once stood in 

 what are now two fields lying at the end of the village, and 

 there also was " Cairncorce Castle," a building of some 

 pretensions to architectural beauty in those days. Several 

 plum trees of the Castle gardens still adorn a corner of some 

 of these fields. The name Cairncorce is familiar to every 

 reader of Border History as that of an ancient and honourable 

 family, their place of burial — the north transept of Melrose 

 Abbey, below the statue of St. Peter — would indicate as much. 



* TrE^ngactioiis Edinburgh Geological Society. 



