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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PORTRACK CASTLE (Remains of) | Portrack Castle Portrack Castle Portrack Castle |
Mr. James Graham Mr. G. Nelson Mr. Thorburn |
041 | [Situation] No. [Number] 17 on Trace 1. The Remains of Castle. This Tower or Castle was used as a place of defence in the time of James ,Vth. by the family of Maxwells. |
| RIVER NITH | Stat. [Statistical] Acc. [Account] of Dumfries Fullarton's Gazetteer Johnstones Co. [County] map |
041; 049 | "The largest of the three Chief rivers "of Dumfries-Shire, and which gives "the name of Nithsdale to the Wastern [Western] "division of the County. - Exclusive " of all minor bends and windings it " has a course of 48 miles." Fullarton |
Continued entries/extra info
[Page] 7.Sheet 41 Plan 13 Parish of Holywood
[Portrack Castle (Remains of)] (16th Century)
[Entry for Old Glasgow Road is scored out] Cancelled
[Signed] M. Donohue c .a. [civilian assistant] Febr [February] 1855.
Transcriber's notes
Portrack Castle - Orthography - written faintly/in pencil - German TextThere are initials JBJ below both entries in the Orthography and also initials? in the List of Names - Won?
River Nith - Orthography - written faintly/in pencil - [omitted by Bexal?]
[Entry for xxx is scored out] - follows Chr1smac -Moderator's format
check River Nith - Descriptive Remarks - line 3 last word appears to be Wastern rather than Western
- last line - I read it as '48' miles with the 8 distorted, but Fullarton's has 49 miles - see:
https://archive.org/stream/topographicalvo21842scot#page/450/mode/2up (& following page)
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