CHAP. II. 



BRITISH ISLANDS. 



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botanist. Bargally was sold by the heirs of Andrew Heron to 

 Mr. William Hannay, the brother of Sir Samuel Hannay of 

 Kirkdale ; he was scarce of cash, and cut down the wood of Bar- 

 gally (including many of the fine trees that had been introduced 

 and planted by Andrew Heron), in the year ] 791. I purchased 

 a portion of the trunk of a silver fir, and I made it into a meal 

 chest; the side boards, the bottom, the ends, and top, or lid, of 

 which chest are all out of one board. This chest is still in my 

 possession, and in use; and it is in depth and breadth, after 

 having been wrought, 2 ft. 2 \n"-—W. M. 



Extract from an old manuscript in the possession of Lady 

 Heron Maxwell of Springkell, relating to Andrew Heron of 

 Bargally: — Andrew Heron of Bargally was the second son 

 of Andrew Heron of Heron, who settled the lands of Bargally 

 upon him as his patrimony. In 1690 he went to reside at Bar- 

 gally ; in 1693 he built the great dyke for the garden and 

 orchard ; and, the next year, he began to collect and fill in a 

 large number of trees, fruit, and flowers. His father died in 

 1695. In that year Andrew Heron employed Mr. Hawkins, an 

 Englishman, to build the stone house. The stone was all got 

 out of a quarry on the east side of the garden ; it was finished, 

 watertight and in order, in 1696. In 1697 and 1700 he built 

 the pigeon house and the crews [farm offices]. Andrew 

 Heron of Bargally married, secondly, the relict of John M'Kie of 

 Larg, in April, 1708; and, having lived twenty-one years after 

 his second marriage, hath improved the ground to great advan- 

 tage, having enclosed all the low grounds, and built a new stone 

 house, made large gardens, well stocked with all kinds of fine 

 trees and rare fruits, both stone and core; some portions were 

 stocked with fine flowers, and he had a green-house stocked with 

 oranges, lemons, pomegranates, passion flowers, citron trees, 

 oleanders, myrdes, and many others. The eldest son of Andrew 

 Heron of Bargally was a captain in Lord Monk Kerr's regiment, 

 and married the daughter of Mr. Vining, a rich merchant at 

 Portsmouth. He left several sons and a daughter : John, bound 

 apprentice to his brother in law, Mr. Reid, a considerable mer- 

 chant; and Andrew, who is bound apprentice to a surgeon at 

 Bath. He hath also Patrick, Charles, and Benjamin; and of 

 daughters, Jane, who married Mr. Reid, to whom her grand- 

 father, Mr. Vining, gave 3500/. in marriage portion, a lar^j-e 

 fortune at that time." 



Lady Heron Maxwell added, from her own knowledge, the 

 following additional information : — " The first Heron of Bar- 

 gally was the uncle of my great-grandfather. Heron of Heron, 

 w^ho represented the stewartry of Kirkcudbright in parliament at 

 different times ; and I am now the last of the direct line of the 

 family of Heron of Heron, and that family held large posses- 



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