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note the late Dr Wood, Dumfries ; Dr Dunbar, Applegarth ; Dr 

 Robert Gordon, " the sweet preacher," a native of Glencairn ; Dr 

 Wightman, of Kirkmahoe ; Dr M' Vicar, of Moffat ; Mr Gatt, of 

 Graitney ; and a medallion of Dr Scott, of St. Michael's. Besides 

 Mr Fergusson's crayon of Carlyle, there are a beautiful interior view 

 of Clielsea house, with Mr and Mrs Carlyle at home, and an 

 engraving of the Maclise portrait. Of Hugh Clapperton, the 

 African traveller, a portrait is lent by his cousin. Miss Clapperton, 

 Annan. Sir John Ross, the Arctic explorer, is also represented ; 

 and there are portraits of Paterson, the founder of the Bank of 

 England, and Telford, the engineer. Many faces of leading 

 citizens of a past generation are figured on the walls. The 

 silhouettes by Firth of promhient Dumfriesians of forty years ago 

 we have already noticed. Besides the caricature of Provost Fraser 

 there are characteristic portraits of Dean Hamilton, Mr Irving of 

 Gribton, and Mr Sinclair, bookseller. A few portraits are also 

 introduced of notables who were more slightly connected with the 

 district ; among them being Queen Mary, Prince Charlie, " the 

 great Marquis " of Montrose, who captured Dumfries for the 

 Royalists in 1644, a transaction of which a contemporary printed 

 account is exhibited upstairs ; Claverhouse, " the gallant Graham " 

 of the Cavaliers, the heartless persecutor of the Scottish peasantry. 

 A collection of Wedgwood cameos, from Flaxman's designs, 

 illustrate another form of art. 



Among the exhibits in the antiquarian section, in addition to 

 those already noticed, we may mention the immense punch bowl 

 of the Incorporated Trades, lent by Mrs D. Dunbar, Langlands ; 

 the ram's horn snuff mull presented to them by the late 

 Captain M'Dowall, . now the property of Mrs Sloan of Elmbank ; 

 the minute book of the seven incorporations, extending back to 

 1612, lent by Mr Primrose of Primrosehill ; that of the Glovers, 

 belonging- to Mr James Lennox ; a burgess ticket of 1773, in 

 favour of an ancestor of his own, lent by Mr J. J. Glover, Hazle- 

 wood ; a book by the late Henry D. Thoreau, bearing the author's 

 autograph, and also that of Carlyle, who presented it to Aird, the 

 property of Mr Gumming, Albany. In the same case with this 

 book and the Carlyle and Cunningham letters are a .silhouette of 

 Lieutenant Allan, of the Canadian Queen's Rangers, and an edition 

 of " The Gentle Shepherd " edited by him, lent by Mr Allan, 

 chemist, Dumfries. Mr Henry Gordon exhibits the MS. of Train's 

 history of the P>uchanites, with annotations and criticisms in the 



