16 Report of the Meetings fur 1892. 



Mrs Craig has described the circular Camp ; there is a 

 second, an oblong, wliich was also traversed. Hindlee was 

 visible beyond. About opposite the first Camp, at the base of 

 Wolflee Hill, is a scrubby Oak wood, which is visible a far way 

 off from the road to the Note of the Gate. We have here 

 assembled in place names the memorial of the aboriginal 

 animals of chase, when the vicinity was still in its wild condition 

 (Wolf-hope-lee, the Catlee Burn, Hindlee, Harwood) the Wolf, 

 the Wild Cat, the Hind, and the Hare. 



The present Wolflee is a misnomer ; the old name of the place 

 being Wool-lee, significant of its pastoral attributes. 



In front of the mansion lay several old quern stones, col- 

 lected from the fields. The tumbler, out of which the poet 

 drank, is of pale and dark coloured horn, with an insertion 

 of an oblong silver plate, inscribed in memory of Burns having 

 used it. 



There was little leisure to linger here, as several of the 

 company required to return in time to catch the railway at 

 Hawick, and for this reason a different return back, which had 

 been intended, bad to be abandoned The weather had cleared 

 up, and the view from Hawtliornside Moor was clear all round. 

 Skelf-hill Pen and the Maiden Paps appeared ; Needslaw, the 

 gap of the Note of the Gate, the long circuit round by Carter 

 Fell and Reedswiie, and at one place Peel Fell came into range. 

 The Cheviot, the Yetholm, and the Kilham Hills also came out, 

 as did the somewhat obtrusive Eildons, which are seldom absent 

 from any circular view hereabouts. Peel Fell was unexpected, 

 but from the ascent and peak or that terminal prominence, I 

 once had the opportunity of distinctlj'- singling out the country 

 hereabouts. Thunder clouds cast their dusky shadows on the 

 benty Liddesdale Moors, and deeper dyed the blue hills, when 

 a gleam of sunshine fell on the southern aspect of this lowly 

 ridge, so that it became glorified into a prospect of far-ofi: 

 cultured fields of varied hues, the barren blemishes being 

 harmonised by distance. 



After dinner, a note was read from Sheriff Russell on a large 

 specimen of the Scotch Laburnum, grown to the south of 

 Edinburgh. 



Holywood, Canaan Lane, Edinbnrgb, May 31, 1892. 



" I took the measurement yesterday of a Scotch Labnrnam tree, 

 growing on the groHnds of the villa of Dr Bruce Bremner (Streatham 



