History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted September 22, 1831, Band 7[publisher not identified], printed for the club by Martin's Printing Works, Spittal, 1876 Contains it's Proceedings. |
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adult male Alnmouth Alnwick appears April Ayton banks barony Berwick Berwickshire Berwickshire collection Bilton bird Border Bull Trout Castle Chatton Cheviot Hill Chirnside Church Club coast Cockburnspath Coldingham colour common Curlews Ditto Douglas Ducks Dunbar Dunse Earl East Lothian Edinburgh Edington farm feet Fieldfares fields fish flocks frequent garden George Grey Grilse Gulls Hawick History Ibid inches Island Jardine Jardine Hall Jedburgh John July June Kelso Kirk land Langleyford Lapwings Lauder Lesbury Lothian March Maxwell Moor Naturalists neighbourhood nest North Berwick Northumberland noticed observed October Old Middleton wood Oldcambus parish Paxton Paxton House Pear Pease dean Penmanshiel plantation plants plentiful rare river Robert rock Roxburghshire Salmon Scotland Scott sea-banks season seen Sept September sexes shot side Society species specimens stone trees Tweed Tweedside vicar Whiteadder Wild William winter Wooler district Wooler Water
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Seite 421 - Being called suddenly to Edinburgh, the laird discovered, as he entered the West Port, that he had brought along with him the key of the dungeon. Struck with the utmost horror, he sent back his servant to relieve the prisoner; but it was too late. The wretched being was found lying upon the steps descending from the door of the vault, starved to death. In the agonies of hunger, he had gnawed the flesh from one of his arms. That his spectre should haunt the castle was a natural consequence of such...
Seite 171 - Fowler o' the Glen, There's ower mony wooin' at her ; Tibbie Fowler o' the Glen, There's ower mony wooin' at her. Wooin' at her, pu'in' at her, Courtin' her, and canna get her. Filthy elf, it's for her pelf, That a' the lads are wooin
Seite 417 - The mingling tempest weaves its gloom, and still The deluge deepens; till the fields around Lie sunk, and flatted, in the sordid wave.
Seite 14 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night : They lay down to rest With corslet laced...
Seite 171 - Seven in the pantry wi' her ; Twenty head about the door : There's ane-and-forty wooin' at her ! She's got pendles in her lugs : Cockle-shells wad set her better ! High-heel'd shoon, and siller tags, And a' the lads are wooin
Seite 37 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Seite 63 - March 6. — As the sexton was digging a grave on the north side of Chatton church, he found a stone coffin about ten inches below the surface. It was secured and neatly covered with three stones. In the coffin were the remains of a human body. The skull was nearly perfect, and the teeth of the upper jaw were a full set ; the thigh bone measured eighteen inches ; but the skull was nearly full of water. The earth being carefully examined, one of Robert...
Seite 526 - Annual Report and Transactions of the Plymouth Institution, and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, vol.
Seite 88 - Cardynall and Archebysschop of Santandros, consecrat and dedicat the paris kyrk in the craig of the Bass, in honor of Sant Baldred, bysschop and confessor, in presens of maister Jhon Lawder, arsden of Teuidail, noter publict.
Seite 159 - On Some Remarkable Forms of Animal Life from the Great Deeps off the Norwegian Coast.