A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . This hamlet, which is situated at the wc .rn extremityof the parish, and on the bank of the lorth and Clydecanal, takes its name from an ancient castle on the lineof the Roman road, of which the tower, now inhabitedby the Earl of Zetlands forester, is the only remainingportion. On the bank of the canal is a smal
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . This hamlet, which is situated at the wc .rn extremityof the parish, and on the bank of the lorth and Clydecanal, takes its name from an ancient castle on the lineof the Roman road, of which the tower, now inhabitedby the Earl of Zetlands forester, is the only remainingportion. On the bank of the canal is a small landing-place for goods and passengers; and in the immediate199 vicinity are some saw-mills driven by water, in whichabout sixteen persons are employed, and some freestonequarries which are extensively wrought. Great facilityof intercourse is afforded by the Edinburgh and Glasgow,the Caledonian, and the Scottish-Central railways.—SeeFalkirk. CASTLE-DOUGLAS, amarket-town and burgh ofbarony,in the parish of Kel-TON, stewartry of Kirkcud-bright, 10 miles (N. N. E.)from Kirkcudbright, and 89(S. S. W.) from Edinburgh;containing 1848 place, which is situatedon a gentle acclivity risingfrom the margin of LochCarlinwark, originally con-sisted only of a few cottages. Burgh Seal. called Causeway End, and subsequently Carlin-wark. It derives its present name from the ancientcastle of Threave, formerly the baronial seat of theDouglases, and the last of the numerous fortresses whichheld out for that family, about the middle of the fifteenthcentury. The rapid increase of the present town, andits former manufacturing importance, arose from theintroduction of the cotton manufacture by its proprietor,Sir William Douglas. This source of employment con-tinued for a time, and added greatly to its population;but the subsequent introduction of the power-loomrendered it impracticable to carry on the works withadvantage, in a locality destitute of an adequate supplyeither of coal
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