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They drove next across to the shore of Wigtown Bay, to the 
Isle of Whithorn. This is a tidy village of considerable size, built 
along the landward edge of what has at one time been an island, 
but by artificial banking has been converted into an isthmus, with 
a good pier and harbour, and having in it a turreted mansion, of 
which Symson in the seventeenth century speaks as “the Isle, a good 
stone house, which belongs to Patrick Huston of Drummaston.” There 
are two rounded isthmuses—the inner and outer Isle. At the sea- 
ward side of the former are still standing the walls ofa small chapel, 
roughly built of whinstone and shell lime. Its outer measurement 
is only twelve paces by seven. This building is believed to belong 
to the fourteenth century, and would be served by monks from 
Whithorn Priory. Beside it are traces of older foundations, sup- 
posed to be those of the original Candida Casa of St. Ninian, which 
is referred to by old writers as having been a land-mark for sailors 
and being surrounded on three sides by the sea. A life-boat house 
is now built on the same neck of land, and so situated that the 
boat can be launched into a bay either on the north or south, as 
the direction of the storm may render necessary. ‘Traces of a triple 
line of ancient fortifications may be discerned on the two Isles. 
Instead of returning direct to Whithorn, the party drove 
along the coast line of Wigtown Bay to Cruggleton Chapel—a 
small pre-Reformation building, and the church of an ancient 
parish, now united with Sorbie—which is in process of being 
restored by Mr Galloway, at the instance of the Marquis of Bute. 
field Meeting. Tth of September. 
A visit was paid to Dornock Churchyard, where Mr John 
Nicholson pointed out some ancient sepulchral monuments. The 
Lochmaben Stane at Old Graitney was next inspected, and then 
Graitney Churchyard was visited. The antiquities of the place were 
explained by the Rev. William Bell of Graitney. Stapleton Tower 
was next explored, and, on the return to Annan, Mr Frank Miller 
acted as guide to Edward Irving’s birthplace and his father’s 
tannery. The Rev. William Bell, Mr John Dunlop, teacher, of 
Dornock ; Mr John Nicholson of Stapleton Grange; Mr and 
Mrs Gunning, and Miss Hamilton, of Castlebank, were elected 
members, 
