SOURCES OF THE GALLOWAY DEE. _ 37 
and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland have 
all gone astray. This is the more remarkable that the explora- 
tion of the Dee does not mean so much time, trouble, and ex- 
pense as a journey into Central Africa. 
I begin with the venerable misstatement which continues to 
hold its place in the eighth edition of the Stewartry guide-book : 
“The Dry Loch, Round Loch, and Long Loch of the Dungeon 
are all joined to each other by a small burn.’”’ These three little 
lochs lie in a straight line from north to south along the foot of 
the hill called The Dungeon and Craignaw, in the heart of the 
Galloway mountain wilderness, and are within a few minutes’ 
walk of one another. The implication of the above statement 
is that a stream issues southwards from the Dry Loch and passes 
through the Round and the Long Loch into the Cooran Lane, 
a tributary of the river Dee. But a careful scrutiny of the 
ground brings to light the fact that the watershed between the 
river Doon system, which flows towards the Firth of Clyde, and 
the river Dee system, which flows towards the Solway Firth, is 
between the two more northerly of the lochs, that the stream 
issuing from the Dry Loch flows northwards and forms a tribu- 
tary of Loch Doon called the Gala Lane. What has misled 
previous observers is the fact that a small stream, a mere trickle, 
enters the Round Loch from the north. This stream, however, 
does not flow out of the Dry Loch. 
The following statement occurs in the “ Introduction ’’ to 
the Fifth Report and Inventory of Monuments and Construc- 
tions in Galloway, Vol. II.—Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. 
issued recently by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and 
Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland: “ With a 
long meandering course under different names, and through 
Loch Ken, the waters of the Dee take their rise in Loch Doon 
on the Ayrshire border, draining the eastern flank of the Kells 
range.’’ This is very much as if one were to say that the Clyde 
rose in Loch Skene, or the Tweed in the Devil’s Beef-Tub. It 
is quite true that certain “ waters of the Dee,’’ the Ken and its 
tributaries, drain the eastern flank of the Kells range; but it 
should be added that the earlier tributaries drain the western 
flank also. 
Another error in the cartography of this district appears in 
