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A Ramble round Yetholm. By Rev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, 

 B.D., Ayton. 



Owing to the difl&culty of organizing an excursion of the 

 Club to this district by reason of its remoteness from the 

 railway and the ill-adjusted train-service, an invitation on 

 the part of Mr Wm. B. Boyd, Faldonside, whose acquaintance 

 with the locality rendered him a veritable Baedeker to the 

 uninitiated, to take part in an expedition to Yetholm pre- 

 sented unusual attractions, as thereby one's knowledge of the 

 Borderland might be widened, and the study of the local 

 flora profitably directed. Taking train on 9th July 1906 to 

 Kelso, which was reached from St. Boswells at 11-55 noon, 

 a conveyance met us at the Station, and in spite of the 

 hilly nature of the road, and the dust-storm raised by an 

 opposition motor-bus, plying thence to Morebattle, deposited 

 us in the course of an hour at the door of the Plough 

 Inn, which had been selected as headquarters for two days. 

 After partaking of lunch, a start was made on our tour of 

 inspection; and taking the road to the South of the town, 

 we struck at about a mile out a loaning to the right, over 

 which the thorn-hedges were well nigh meeting, and following 

 it for some distance reached Primside Bog, lying on our 

 left and North of the Morebattle road. On a casual survey 

 it looked little more than a dub in the midst of cattle 

 pasture, so that to the unwary little difficulty presented 



