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family relic has just been restored to the possession of Miss 

 Copland as the result of an action in the Sheriff Court, it having 

 formed part of the contents of a plate chest which went amissing 

 in the hands of the bankers to whom it was committed for safe 

 custody and got mixed with the Carnsalloch possessions. 



Newabbey, it may be observed in passing, has a close link of 

 association with Dumfries more recent than that supplied by 

 Devorgilla, the pious founder of its abbey, and the builder also of 

 the Old Bridge of Dumfries. This is the mutual interest wliich 

 the two places possess in the memory of Bailie Jolm Paterson. 

 A native of Newabbey and a magistrate of Dumfries, where he 

 died in 1722, he was the most generous benefactor of our 

 Academy, for the benefit of which he bequeathed a sum of £835, 

 secured on Preston and other lands in Kirkbean. His interest 

 in his native place was shown by erecting the bridge that carries 

 the Dumfries road over the burn just north of the village, and 

 still more substantially by a handsome bequest for the poor of 

 Newabbey. 



Saturday, 2nd of September. 



DUNDRENNAN AbBEY. 



On reaching the Old Abbey village the party dismounted and 

 walked down to the ruins, which formed the principal object of 

 the day's visitation. They were here received by the Rtv. 

 George Maconachie, who gave a learned exposition of the 

 architecture of the Abbey. The church, Mr Maconachie says, 

 the most conspicuous part of the Abbey, was built in the form of 

 a Latin cross. Viewed from the north, it presented an immense 

 ridge of roof, 60 feet high, extending from east to west about 210 

 feet, and crossed near the east end by another roof, the height 

 and span of which can be determined from the existing gable of 

 the north transept. At the point of intersection there rose a 

 dumpy square tower, ten feet above the roof. Looking at the 

 side walls of the longest part, that runs east and west, these 

 would be seen to be about twenty feet high, and above them there 

 rose a " lean-to " roof, from the upper edge of which the walls 

 rose for ten feet, and contained the windows of the clerestory. 

 The same arrangement obtained, of course, on tlie other side of 



