REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1003 23 



One dare not pass unnoticed altogether the ruins of the church 

 attached to these more ancient buildings, were 

 St. Mary's it only to express our sense of gratitude that, 

 Aisle. in spite of the stormy past, there still remain 



fragments of this monument of piety to supply 

 us with lines, however meagre, with which to trace the plan 

 pursued by earlier beautifiers of the House of God, not the 

 least of which is St. Mary's aisle, the burying-place of the 

 Haliburtons, and through them of Sir Walter Scott, of whom 

 it has been said: — "When the swollen Tweed raves as it 

 sweeps, red and broad, round the ruins of Dryburgh, you 

 think of him who rests there — the magician, asleep in the 

 lap of legends old, the sorcerer, buried in the heart of the 

 land he has made enchanted." 



After the Visitor's Book was signed in the name of the 

 Club by Captain Norman, the party retraced 

 Club their steps to St. Boswells, where dinner was 



Dinner. served in the Eailway Hotel, under the Presi- 



dency of Rev. Thomas Martin, M.A., Lauder. 

 After dinner a number of interesting photographs, illustrative 

 of stones and inscriptions discovered in the neighbourhood of 

 Jedburgh, were submitted by Mr Walter Laidlaw, who was 

 cordially thanked by the President. 



