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The company then proceeded through the flat corn-growing 

 plain, past Wark village on to Cornhill. Mr Bolam gave an 

 account of Mr Gregson of Wark, and the introduction of the 

 Turnip industry there ; and has since furnished a written account 

 from a MS. in his possession, of Mr Gregson, and his improve- 

 ments, and his hospitality. Owing to a desertion of the river of 

 its old channel, it has cut off a corner of the Lees estate, and 

 attached it to England. The abandoned channel is called " Dry 

 Tweed." There is a fine sweep of the river round Lees, which 

 peeps out from its environment of noble umbrageous trees. 



Dinner was at the Collingwood Arms, Cornhill. There were 

 present at this Meeting : — Major General Sir William Grossman, 

 K.C.M.G., etc., President; Dr James Hardy, Secretary; Capt. 

 Forbes, E.N., Berwick ; Capt. F. M. Norman, E.N., Berwick ; 

 Mr R. G. Bolam, Berwick ; Mr George Bolam, Berwick ; Mr 

 John Bolam, Bilton ; Col. Hill, Lowlynn ; Mr G. H. Thompson, 

 Alnwick ; Mr J. L. Newbigin, Alnwick ; Mr William Lyall, 

 Newcastle; Mr R. Blair, F.S.A., Sec, of the Antiquarian Society 

 Newcastle; Mr C. B. P. Bosanquet, Rock ; Mr Bosanquet, jun., 

 and friend ; Rev. Canon J. S. Wilsden, Wooler, and friend ; 

 Rev. Peter Mearns, Coldstream ; Rev. Ambrose Jones, Stanning- 

 ton ; Rev. John Walker, Whalton ; Rev. George Gunn, Stitchel ; 

 Rev. Joseph Hunter, Cockburnspath ; Rev. W. M. Warlow, 

 Kelso ; Rev. Wm. Taylor, St. Mary's, Whittinghara ; Rev. R. 

 C. Fillingham, Berwick ; Dr Dobie, Coldstream ; Mr J. Crawford 

 Hodgson, Low Buston ; Mr George Tate, Brotherwick ; Mr John 

 Ferguson, Duns ; Mr R. Stephenson, Chapel, Duns ; Mr J. 

 Veitch, Brighton ; Mr William Elliot, Sheriff Clerk of Roxburgh- 

 shire ; Mr Robert Redpath, Newcastle ; Mr Robert Weddell, 

 Berwick ; Mr William Wilson, Berwick ; Mr George Henderson, 

 Shidiaw ; Mr Michael Muir, Selkirk ; Mr Thomas Sraail, Jed- 

 burgh ; Mr John Turnbull, Selkirk ; Mr J. C. Collingwood, 

 Cornhill House. 



After dinner several of the company were invited by Mr J, C. 

 Collingwood to Cornhill House, and saw the library, the pictures, 

 collections of curios, arms, etc. ; the old furniture, and the family 

 portraits. It is situated on a peninsular ridge, whence there is 

 a pretty prospect of a majestic sweep of the Tweed, along which 

 lies the town of Coldstream, the handsome bridge, and detached 

 houses, each in its own warm nook of verdure. The view of the 

 agricultural district south of the Tweed is across West Lear- 



