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2. — Kelso for Head of Bowmont Water. 

 By the President. 



The second meeting of the season was held on Wednesday 

 30th June, at Kelso, for Calroust and the upper vales of the 

 Bowmont. There was a good muster of members, including 

 the Eev. Canon Walker, President ; Rev. George Gunn, Stichill 

 Manse, Joint Secretary ; Mr W. T. Hindmarsh, Alnwick ; Rev. 

 Ambrose Jones, Stannington ; Rev. D. Paul, LL.D, and Mrs Paul, 

 Edinburgh ; Rev. Charles J. Cowan and Mr Hunter Cowan, 

 Morebattle ; Messrs J. L. Newbigin, Alnwick ; W. Rea, 

 Cleithaugh ; Tom Scott, A.R.S.A., Bowden ; Francis Lynn, 

 F.S.A. Scot., Galashiels; W. B. Boyd, Faldonside ; Lindsay 

 Hilson and Oliver Hilson, Jedburgh ; Thomas Small, Jedburgh ; 

 G. Fortune and Dr Wilson, Duns ; Rev. J. S. Goldie, Walker- 

 burn; W. Leadbetter, Legerwood ; Rev. Wm. E. BoUand, 

 Embleton Vicarage ; Maberley Phillips, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; 

 J. C. Smith, Mowhaugh ; John Turnbull, Galashiels ; David 

 Hume, Thornton, Berwick ; George Wood, Jedburgh ; Allan 

 A. Falconer, Duns ; Thomas Henderson, Baillieknowe, Kelso ; 

 Charles S. Romanes, C.A., Edinburgh; George Henderson, 

 Upper Keith. 



The weather was not very promising, but it held out fine 

 though dull all day. A good start was made about 10 a.m., by 

 way of Yetholm to Calroust Easterstead. The birthplace of 

 Thomas Pringle, a Border Poet, was pointed out ; and in some 

 of the woods and plantations one or two not common plants 

 were gathered. One or two specimens of Goodyera repens were 

 in flower at its old station at Graden. Only a brief stay was 

 made. There was no time to visit the old town of Kirk 

 Yetholm. The road now follows the left bank of the Bowmont 

 Water. The hedgerows for some miles were gay with Alkanet 

 and Foxglove. The scenery, as we near the lower spurs of the 

 Cheviots, becomes wilder, and the weather more threatening, 

 the tops of the hills being smothered in mist. At the foot of 

 Calroust the party dismounted, and the carriages were sent 

 on to Sourhope. The younger members, under the guidance 

 of Mr Francis Lynn, F.S.A. Scot., ascended Calroust, and 

 inspected the large camp locally known as " The Castles," with 

 its double earthworks on the summit, and other smaller camps 

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