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Dumfriesshire (Dumfries, Annan, Lockerbie, Moffat, Sanquhar, Langholm,
Gretna)
Dumfriesshire, lies in an elliptical
form on the north side of the Solway Frith, its greater diameter
extending about fifty miles, from the mountain of Corsincon in
Ayrshire to Liddel Moat in Roxburghshire; and its smaller diameter
stretching from Loch Craig, on the confines of Peebleshire, to
Carlaverock Castle, on the Solway.
The County is separated from
Kireudbrightshire for several miles, on the south-west, by the water
of Cairn, or Cluden; and from the point where that stream ceases to
become its boundary line it is cinctured by a high mountain range,
which breaks away westward from Cumberland into the south of
Scotland.
 Threave
Island may have been the home of the ancient rulers of Galloway, but
today's castle was built at the end of the 1300's by the powerful
Archibald Douglas, known as "Archibald the Grim"
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