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from the precincts of the church and from the surrounding district. 
The prevailing shape is the square cross, variously known as the 
Greek and Maltese, and the limbs are often indicated by five 
embossed circles. The larger shafts are generally ornamented with 
wicker-work or Runic pattern, On one small stone there are 
traced three Latin crosses close together, the one in the centre 
much larger than the others, a design obviously intended to repre- 
sent the scene on Calvary. A large baptismal font, believed to be 
the one originally in use in the Priory, and elaborately sculptured 
corbel stones more or less entire, are also here preserved ; and 
among heraldic devices the arms of the province of Galloway and 
the double chevron of the M‘Lellan family are to be noted. A 
small bell, still intact, bears the date 1610, and appears from 
an inscription to have been cast in the city of Bruges. 
Somewhat incongruously neighbouring the solemn mementoes 
of a devotional age is a stone which has upon it several words in 
large raised letters, some of which are now altogether effaced or 
so worn as to be illegible. Some ingenuity has been expended 
in the effort to give an English rendering to what was supposed 
to be obscure Latin. If we supply the missing letters in a 
manner suggested by their context, as Mr Galloway pointed out, 
we have, as will be seen below, an epigrammatic advice in homely 
Scotch phrase, viz., 
TENT T[O] 
DE]|GJHT 
WE[EL] 
| Anglice—Be careful to clean well. | 
The stone had occupied a place in the wall of an old farm building, 
where it would daily but silently admonish the household to habits 
of cleanliness. 
In one of the apartments of the old Town Hall Mr Galloway 
has stored an extensive collection of fragmentary pieces of carving 
turned up in the course of the excavations. Some of these—not- 
ably a small but strikingly expressive face—convey a very high 
idea of the attainments of the early artists whose handiwork they 
were. 
Having explored the Priory and its adjuncts as fully as 
time permitted, the company set out for St. Ninian’s Cave, 
making by the way a short detour to see the large Roman 
camp on the farm of Rispain. A drive through a pleasantly 
wooded tract of country, and past the policies of Glasserton House 
