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the name ? Where is Ewart ? Ewart lies exactly in 

 the middle of the Lake under 50 feet of water, half-way 

 between Doddington and Kirknewton, Ewart thus 

 occupying the centre, the name seems suitable for the 

 Lake itself, and I ask your permission for the present to 

 designate it by this name. 



At the Northern end there is mystery, something 



between Branxton and Pallinsburn makes a 

 Maiden shore line, something also between Pallins- 



Dean. burn and Duddo Hill ; and the Lake water 



finds no escape by either of these gateways, 

 nor yet by Grindon Ridge ; but the channel of the out- 

 flowing river goes North-east, and flows through a ravine 

 of its own down to the North Sea. The name Haiden 

 Dean must shield me from the charge of flippancy in 

 conducting you on this imaginary voyage. This wonder- 

 ful ravine, named Haiden Dean by the Ordnance Sufvey 

 maps, is, in point of antiquity, an incomparably older 

 monument than any ruined forts or walls of human 

 make. The sight of this deep but dry gorge carved out 

 of the rolling surface of the moor and pasture at once 

 suggests, " Here is the bed of a former river." Members 

 of the Club may know it, and I need not describe it, 

 beyond saying that it is a repetition in general aspect 

 of the lower present-day course of the Till, though now 

 scarcely enough water trickles through it to wet one's 

 feet. 



I have put upon a map* the contours of the ground 



round about the Till's course from Etal to 

 Explana- the Tweed. The rivers are shown, blue, 

 tory bog and swamp, green, all land over 200 



Diag^ram. feet above sea level, red, and over 300, 



brown. The letters are a key to the 

 names. A moment's consideration of these contours will, 

 I think, explain my point. We have the great Barmoor 



* See Plate VII., in which the colours are replaced by shading. 



