10 Report of the Meetings for 1892. 



families of Lovel, Oomyn, and Balliol, had each their connection 

 with it hefore them, leaving a long record from the twelfth 

 century downward. Eounding the end of the hill, the old 

 British Camps on Cavers Knowes came for a moment into view 

 on the left ; but no halt was made for inspection either here or 

 at the road leading up Kirkton burn to Kirkton Camps, though 

 both are well worthy of a visit, owing to lack of time to fulfil 

 the prescribed programme, so full and ample was it. About 

 half-a-mile beyond Kirkton Church, nearly opposite Kirkton 

 burn, a very good section of the Basaltic Dyke, which runs in a 

 continuous line from east to west across Eoxburghshire, was 

 passed. Here the stone has been quarried, and shows very hard 

 and strong!}' crystalline. It was this section which the late Mr 

 Milne-Home pointed out as so well suited to prove the theory of 

 its being a volcanic crack in the earth, which had subsequently 

 been filled with molten lava, because looking at the two sides of 

 the fissure he says " when the metal is taken out, if the sides 

 were brought together, it is evident they would fit exactl3^" 

 (Paper read to Royal Society 1842.) 



A wide stretch of moorland now unfolded itself to view as the 

 party pressed on over Hawthornside Height, till by-and-bye 

 Euberslaw lifted its majestic form on the left. The impressive 

 contour of this fine example of volcanic energy seemed instinct 

 with a brooding personality as the grey shadows flitted over it 

 in the morning light, making one think of like impressions it 

 had made on the sweet singers of old, till once again it was the 

 sentient thing of fate sung by Leyden, the " lowering " potentate 

 of the author of " Rab and his Friends." On coming to the 

 summit of the ridge, after a long pull, a glorious prospect met 

 the eye. To the south-west lay Wynburgh, backed by the 

 Liddesdale hills, Wheelrig and the Carlin Tooth, the long 

 saddle-back of the Carter Fell barring the horizon to the south, 

 and guarding the south-east stood the grey Cheviot, while lower 

 down the fort-crested top of Bonchester Hill, and the long ridge 

 of Wolflee Hill stood fronting us, and one could just catch, 

 where at the end of a clump of wood, the so-called Roman road, 

 which enters Roxburghshire at the Dead Water Head, and as 

 the Wheelcauseway traverses the latter hill, is lost in the public 

 road to Note o' the Gate. Swiftly the wide expanse of country 

 narrowed itself, till the deep wood-embowered valley of the 

 Rule lay before us, sheltered in a ravine from every blast, like 



