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The hollows where the posts may have stood along each side of 

 the entrance pathway, and in the expanded circle to whicli it 

 conducted, were marked by tufts of coarse grass. Subsequently 

 when he and a friend returned each with a spade to search for 

 it, the surface had been all burned over, and no trace remained 

 visible. 



Mr George BoLim sends me some apposite Ornithological 

 memoranda: "Did you sfie the Eing Ouzel's nest which was 

 found on Beanley Moor that day? It contained four young ones 

 about three parts grown. I also saw a Coot's nest on the Lough 

 with two eggs, and a Eeed Bunting's with four — some Herons 

 and a AVild Drake also at the Lough, and a pair of Snipe on the 

 bog at the N.AV. end. Canon Tristram pointed out several 

 places where long ago he had been in the habit of taking rare 

 nests (at least what we should consider very rare now, but which 

 were then common enough) ; on one small rock near where we 

 dined he once got a Buzzard nest with four eggs, and one or two 

 pair of Buzzards used to breed in the woods every year. The 

 Marsh Harrier also bred annually at Kemmer Lough, and Hen 

 Harriers on the moors both at Beanley and Bewick." 



Returning to the botanising party, great plots, chiefly among 

 heaps of stones, of the pretty and often rare TrientaliH Europcea 

 were widely dispersed over these moors, some of the flowers being- 

 tipped with pink ; and there were large beds of Harebells, on 

 what would afterwards be clumps of brakens, but scarcely fully 

 unfolded on these exposed altitudes, although in rich bloom in 

 the shelter of the Beanley woods to the westward. There were 

 also Anemone yiemorosa, Oenista anglica, Tormentil, Lady's Bed- 

 straw, Bitter Vetch, Wood Lousewort, &c. ; Deer's-hair and 

 Cotton-grass in the swamps ; and Salix repens in some of the 

 bogs. The mosses were Leucohryum glaucum which prefers dr}'^ 

 moors; andUri/um nutans and Campylopm flexuosm, both in fruit, 

 from the swampy ground. The principal Lichens were Parmelia 

 ornphalodes, and P. saxatilis, Rein- deer Moss, Spharophoron corall- 

 oides, Lecidea geographica, and Cetraria glauca^ and doubtless many 

 more. Larks, Lapwings, Pipits, Golden Plovers, and Cuckoos 

 were on the hills. There were Willow-wrens at Beanley, and 

 on a previous visit I remarked Redstarts by the roadsides. 



The first party had filed away past the point of Kemmer HiU, 

 which juts out into the great flat that stretches down past Low 

 Shipley, before those who followed at leisure reached this out- 



