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Alnwick; Capt. Ealph Huggup, Gloster Hill; Rev. A. Jones, 

 Stannington ; Rev. John Walker, Whalton ; Rev. Father Robert, 

 Alnwick; Rev. Father Taylor, Whittingham ; Mr R. Y. Green, 

 Newcastle ; Mr R. Cecil Hedley, Cheviot, Corbridge-on-Tyne : 

 Mr Middleton H. Dand, Hauxley Cottage; Mr J. R. Arkle, 

 Meldon Home Farm; Mr J. P. Turnbull, Alnwick; Mr George 

 Wilson, Alnwick ; Mr J. C. Hodgson, Low Bu>ton ; Mr B. 

 Morton, Sunderland ; Mr Edward Thew, Birling ; Dr Duncanson, 

 Alnwick ; Mr Andrew Thompson, Glanton ; Capt. Forbes, 

 R.N., Berwick, and others ; and two ladies. 



Mr Philip Wilson, junr.. The Knoll, Duns, and Mr George 

 Sanderson, Newcastle, and Fairfield, Wark worth, were proposed 

 as members. 



Jedburgh for Carter Fell and Southdean. 



A considerable portion of the shire of Roxburgh northwards 

 of the Carter Fell having hitherto remained unvisited, it was 

 desirable to prospect it, in. order to ascertain what capabilities 

 for future investigation it offered, what remains of antiquity 

 survived in its seclusion, and what were its prominent physical 

 features. A first visit with these intentions was accomplished by 

 the Club, under favourable conditions, on the 27th July from 

 Jedburgh. The distance was too remote for anything more than 

 a drive. The time required to bring up the members to an early 

 muster could not be arranged earlier than for a start at ten 

 o'clock. There was a large gathering. There being nothing to 

 detain them, the President, his son, and tlie Secretary left Jed- 

 burgh shortly after nine o'clock in a light carriage, which 

 reached the Carter Fell before twelve, and then crossing the 

 Borders, descended to Whitelee at the head of Redesdale, and 

 inspected the wild country where the river Rede rises in two 

 separate ravines in the back of the Carter. The view com- 

 prehended Lumsden Hill aud house, and the steep slopes of the 

 rough-featured hills descending to the narrow Rede valley, away 

 downward past the site of the battle-field of Otterburn. Rams- 

 hope, Batingburn, where Parcy Reed met his treacherous end, 

 and Chattlehope were all in the immediate neighbourhood. 

 Whitelee, once a public-house, is now a temperance hotel, wher^ 



