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of Thurston, in Nov. 1796, and ordained 6th April thereafter; 

 died 22nd Aug. 1848, in his 87th year and 50th min. He 

 married 8th June 1797, Janet, daup-h. of Mr John Boreland 

 of Woodside ; she died 29th Nov. 1803, and had a daughter 

 Margaret: 2ndly, 23rd Aug. 1805, Margaret, daughter of 

 the Eev. Daniel McQueen, Prestonkirk ; she died 7th Jan. 

 1810, and had Mary, John Wardrop, and Daniel McQueen: 

 3rdly, 31st Dec. 1812, Agnes Sleigh, relict of Mr Alex. 

 Miller, Thorntonloch ; she died 4th March, 1843. — (Presb. 

 Reg., Tombst., &c.) 



Leaving the conveyances at Stottencleugh, the party 

 proceeded in fairly fine weather on foot, under the guidance 

 of Mr Wilson of Chapelhill, and of Mr and Miss Hood of 

 Linnhead, to Aikengall, and passing below the farm house 

 proceeded up Shippeth Glen, the most extensive of all the 

 glens opening out from here into the hills. Some kept the 

 top of the southerly ridge that slopes into the hollow scooped 

 out by the Shippeth Burn, while others, more adventurous, 

 made their way up the course of the burn, no easy matter 

 along a narrow and deep rock fissure, the means of progress 

 being by supporting yourself with hands and feet on each 

 wall, resting feet on projecting bits of conglomerate, and 

 grasping tangle or brushwood the while. 



Botanists were busy both above and below ; among 

 specimens collected were secured Sirix gigas, Clavaria aurea, 

 Vicia sylvatica or kidney vetch, the bloom of this being still 

 abundant and beautiful ; various ferns, such as the spleenwort, 

 the oak fern, and the sweet-smelling Lastrea oreopteris. 



More than half way up the length of the glen is a crossing- 

 place. Here a short halt was called ; a very few thereafter 

 continued their clamber to the apex of the fissure, the rest 

 ascended to terra firma above, joining the others from whom 

 they had parted at foot of the glen, and with them crossed 

 the moor to the edge of the "Burnup" Glen so as to view 

 the out-crops there of the Porphyritic Dyke, called "Fairy 

 Castles," and then follow the glen down to Stottencleugh. 



For the fullest possible description of what may be sought 

 for and seen in this wild and beautiful hill region, members 

 would do well to refer to the report of the Cockburnspath 



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