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In the park in front

The bell of Crossmichael church "hingand"
in the steeple is dated 1611 and bears
the legend IAN. BVRGERHVYS. ME. PECIT. 1611.
It has a diameter of 13 1/2 ins. [inches]

[Photograph of church]

[Page] 109.

Crossmichael Par. [Parish]
Greenlaw
?Cairn
In the park in front of Greenlaw
House and a short distance back from
the railway is a grass-covered stony
mound which is probably a cairn. It is
elliptical in outline with its longest axis
NNE [North North East] and SSW [South South West] and measures diametrically 70' by 55'
with an elevation of about 5'.

26 Sept. 1911.
Gave up the Manse at Parton with no
feelings of regret. It lies too low to obtain
much advantage from the picturesque region
it is situated in, and the water supply
insufficient I should imagine in a normal
year was hopelessly so in this. S. going back to
school and the household scattering I
came on alone by the morning train to
Kirkcudbright where I have taken up my
abode in the "Selkirk Arms" an old established
Inn in the centre of the town. Very unpretentious
but clean & rendered externally attractive by
the bright window boxes which fill the window-
-ledges of its white gable standing end-on
to the street. There is an air of homely
comfort within which augurs well for my
prospects.
The landlady having secured a youth with
a bicycle in advance I was off within a few

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