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of an imposing Dartmoor type, veined from summit to 

 valley by many a tumbling brook, and peopled with 

 famous Galloway cattle, and black-faced mountain sheep, 

 nimble as goats. Castle Douglas is another convenient 

 halting-place, and Dumfries, the interesting town on the 

 Nith, where Burns wandered, worked, and died, should 

 arrest the progress of one who has not previously made 

 acquaintance with it. 



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