44 Oxp Pustic LiprARIES IN DuMFRIES. 
during the ministry of the Rev. James Clyde—that is, before 
1851.—It has at present over 900 volumes. 
1883.—Next in point of date is Irving Street Congregational 
Church. It was started in 1883 with half-a-dozen volumes, the 
Rev. W. H. Pulsford being the moving spirit. It now has 300 
very well selected volumes. 
1888.—The congregational library of Greyfriars’ was estab- 
lished in 1888. There have been at least two catalogues com- 
piled, 1891 and 1902, and now the Sunday School and congre- 
gational libraries together number 3000 volumes. 
1887.—Free St. George’s Library was established March 17, 
1887, £50 having been received from a lady member of the 
congregation. Two catalogues have been published, 1887 and 
1896. Their stock now amounts to over 1000 volumes. 
In the Statistical Account of Dumfries in 1841 we find the 
following statement:—“ The Presbytery of this district has a 
valuable library, besides which there are three others belonging 
to societies. Of what are called circulating libraries there are 
four kept by booksellers on speculation, and a select one, open 
to the public. There also exists a Mechanics’ Institute, in the 
list of whose members appear many respectable individuals 
belonging to the town. ‘There are already four public reading- 
rooms.”’ 
NOTES ON EXCAVATIONS AT MOFFAT SEWAGE Works. By JOHN 
T. JOHNSTONE, Moffat. 
The valley of the Annan at Moffat as we now see it may 
be said to be a relic of the great Ice Age. An excavation made 
nearly anywhere down into the till reveals the fact that nearly 
all the stones are striated or otherwise marked by the grinding 
and crushing forces of the moving masses of ice in its course 
down the valley. The flat holms and meadows bordering on 
the Annan, and known as the Hammerlands and Kerr, have been 
filled up to a considerable depth from their former level by this 
action, and partly to the silting up of the ever-shifting beds of 
the Annan and Birnock waters, which in their course through 
the ages have meandered at their will over the full width of the 
valley at some time or other. At the excavation made for 
the new sewage works constructed in 1901-2 this old land surface 
