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particular, and you can then see that if it tallies with what 
he told me. His direction is W. Bell Irving, Esquire, of 
Whitehill, near Ecclefechen, N.B. If you have leisure, 
and could take the trouble to copy the old ballad, with 
notes, &c., I should then be able to point out something 
more satisfactory than the above imperfect account is. — 
Believe me ever 
“ Yrs truly, 
“ ft, Liddesdale” 
“ William Cleator, Esqre, 
“ Cropton Cottage, near Pickering.” 
From the letter formerly published it does not appear 
that Sir Walter Scott had ever his doubts removed as to 
the genuineness of the old ballad. The above letters are 
published in the hope that some reader may possibly take 
up the subject and clear up the doubts, if this has not 
already been done. 
“On a further Analysis of the Water of the Mineral 
Spring at Humphrey Head,” by C. Grimshaw and H. 
Grimshaw, F.C.S. 
At a meeting of this Society held on November the 28th, 
1876, one of us, in conjunction with Mr. J. Barnes, read a 
paper on some analyses of this mineral spring, samples 
having been taken in the month of August in 1875 and 
1876 respectively. 
The above quoted paper also referred to an analysis of the 
water of this spring by T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., in the year 
1868. It was noted that during this period the composition 
of the mineral matter contained in the water had remained 
remarkably constant during this period of eight years ; and 
it was also proposed to ascertain, after the lapse of another 
period, whether this constancy was still maintained. 
The results of analyses performed with this view on a 
sample taken on August 16th, 1878, we now beg to lay 
