Report of the Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club for the year 1892. Edited by Dr Hardy. 



1. — Hawick and Wauchope. By Mes. M. G. Craig, Hawick. 



The First Meeting of the season took place at Hawick on 

 the 1st of June, and the programme for the day was arranged 

 for the party proceeding to the Eule Water district. About 

 thirty members sat down to breakfast in the Tower Hotel, and 

 immediately thereafter the company entered the carriages in 

 waiting. The route was nlong the High Street, and out from 

 the east end of the town by the Jedburgh road, along the banks 

 of the Teviot for about two miles, and then by the old Newcastle 

 road, from which, while slowly ascending the hill opposite 

 Bucklands, a fine view was obtained of the lower part of the 

 vale of Upper Teviotdale. To the right, the Mansion House of 

 Beechhurst, and on the left the grounds of Linden Park were 

 much admired. The former occupies a site locallj'- known as 

 " the Dodlins," and the latter Mansion House stands on a knoll 

 where the remains of an ancient Briton formerly reposed, the 

 same having been dug out in preparing the foundations of the 

 new edifice. The Trow- burn runs round the south-east and 

 north of it, and on being broken into, the ground surrounding 

 it was found to be of so sandy a nature as to point to the fact 

 of its having, in former days, when the Teviot rolled along at a 

 considerably higher level than it does to-day, formed the bed of 

 a large lake, on the banks of which, or it may have been on an 

 island in it, the remains of the entombed unknown had been 

 laid to rest. Next, Orchard was passed on the right, and the 

 road leading up to Ormiston (the site of Cocklaw Castle, the 

 ancient home of the Gladstones, who came to this district from 

 Lanarkshire in the wake of the Douglases, to whom they acted 

 as stewards or bailifs ; and probably this was the last place in 

 Scotland where Hotspur appeared in active hostility before his 

 death at Shrewsbury.) 



Crossing the Trow-burn bridge, the south gateway to Cavers 

 was pointed out on the left. This old stronghold was the 

 ancient seat of the Douglases, hereditary sheriffs of Teviotdale, 

 though the history of the place reaches much further back than 

 the traditions of that family in this district. The Norman 



