62 Eeport of Meetings for 1890. By Dr J. Hardy. 



" When Penchryst Pen showed high Dunion, 

 Its beacon blazing red;" 

 and there were far- stretching moors ; lengthy winding silvery 

 streams; extensive pasture lands and fleecy flocks ; "husband- 

 men winning their hay " ; craggy or bushy or tree specked, 

 green hill slopes ; the mysterious Catrail ; and at the close a fine 

 water-fall and a "Jasper Rock." 



Hawick has a beautiful entry from among the greeu hillsides 

 that frame tlie basin of the Slitrig. Hardie's hill, so named 

 from a former provost, whose property it was, rises on the left ; 

 and here are the town allotments. The wild flowers observable 

 on the slopes were Horse's Knot, very prevalent ; Trifolium 

 medium; Knautia arvensis ; Hypericum perforatum ; and Marjoram. 

 Lynnwood Mill occupies a picturesque situation, backed by a 

 circuitous steep boulder-clay purplish scaur, enlivened by a well- 

 grown ornamental plantation on the encircling bank ; with plots 

 of enormous leaved Butter-bur by the riverside opposite. " The 

 Slitrig at Lynnwood," says Professor Elliot, " has cut through 

 a very deep mass of till, as shown in the scaur there ; but that 

 mass presents a peculiarity not often witnessed, for it rests on a 

 stratified gravel." (Trans. Arch. Soc. of Hawick, 1876, p. 6). 

 Earlier in the season there is up to Stobs a profusion of luxuriant 

 wild Eoses by the sides of the roads and on the haughs or out- 

 lying uncultivated corners near the Slitrig. 



Hummelknows is a prominent green hill. Font's map indi- 

 cated a tower at Hummelknows. Several of the surrounding 

 heights are crested with the sites of British Camps. The 

 Whitlaws, Flex or Flekkis, Akerknowe, Turn, and Windington 

 are on our right hand as we proceed, but not all visible ; 

 Hankholm Haugh (cultivated), Collifort hill, and Horslee are on 

 our left, and then comes Newmills. Many of the little hills are 

 much broken up at the tops, as if they had had to encounter 

 fierce elemental war, glacial or diluvial. Collifort hill has a 

 very unequal summit as if cut up with trenches. It is occupied 

 by a large British camp. Some of the hills are cultivated, others 

 green and grassy. There are scattered remains of old wood on 

 some of the hillsides. 



Several of the places we were passing belonged of old to the 

 Gledstanes or Gledstones, one of whom Gledstanes of that ilk,* 

 " good at need, led the men of Hawick out," at the battle of 



* Gladatuucs is iu the pariah of LibborLun, Pt'obJcashire. 



