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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 Chelsea 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 prominent 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 Cumming, 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 Buchanites, with annotations and criticisms in the 
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