OF THE SOLWAY FIRTH. 531 



The inhabitants of Dumfries hav- divided 



the town's (hare of this morafs, and the im. 



-perty being thus afcertained, fome fucccfsful at- 

 ,.uie in raifmg grain, hay, 

 lows, and other vegetable production* Anted to 

 i 



On rhc left, near the Solway firth, is the anricnt 



caflic of Cicriavcnc, which, chough frequently be- 



ic Eng: 1300, whc.-i it 



I. is it. 11 in bccrcr co 



than mod of the old fortreflet of that kingd'j-n. It 

 was the propcrrv of the anticnt and warlike family 

 from the number of beds, amount* 

 ing to 80, found in the cattle by Cro'.i well's troops, 

 n to have lived in great (late. The great hall is 

 91 feet bv 26. On the walls arc various carvings, 

 as coats of arms, legendary tales, and Ovid's fab. 

 all nearly cxccir 



The cattle (lands on thr edge of rhe Solway firth, 



which now widens to 9 miles, and receives the river 



:i, a copious dream, furnifhrJ, 6 miles below 



Dumfries, with a harbour fufficicnt to admi: veflels 



of 250 tons burden ; fmall craft go with the tide as 



as the town. The banks or >jth 



fides, between Dumfries and its port, are bca 



rued with villas, groves, na-ural woons and 

 wcll-cnclofed fields ; the whole forming a rich land- 

 fcapc, and a mod delightful 01 :he inhabitants 



of Dumfries, a fmall, but elegant town, capital of 

 the countv, and of the fouth of Scotland bcru 

 the [f was antic: ;ce of confukrable 



commerce, though often ruined by the En^lim, who 

 cir head i; .Cc 



the ed their ravagvs to tf.e wrilern cxtrcn 



ere the ftrrh of Clyde bounded ti 



The inhabitants of the lad agr attempted the 

 ^inia trade, which * to 



Glafgow, Whitchaven and Liverpool, fince which 

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