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PORTPATRICK 021 [Continued] the town is the Parish Church erected in 1843 and is a [handsome] Stone building. - At the N E [North East] side of the town is the Free Church. In town there is a respectable and Commodious Inn where the nobility [&] gentry passing to and from Ireland at this place are accommodated (See article Gordon's Hotel) there are also 2 or 3 respectable public houses which afford accommodation to travellers there are in all 9 public houses in the town; a mail coach arrives here every day from Dumfries & once [departed] daily to the Same place also a mail car arrives daily from Ayr and another departs carrying with it the Glasgow Mail. - In the town there is a custom [house] Subject to the customs house and Port of Stranraer. - There is but very little [trade] or commerce carried on at this place but there is a good fishery along the [coast] which gives employment to a great number of the inhabitants of the town. On [the] south side of the town is a Spring of Strong Chalybeate water which flows at all [times] in a Small but regular Stream from the rock.

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