. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. position which might apparentlybe turned to patriotic and lucrative account. Apier, erected about half-a-century ago by the aidof the Convention of Royal Burghs, offers accom-modation to the few vessels which the unimportantcommerce of the district keeps employed. TheGalloway steamer occasionally touches here on herway to and from Liverpool; and small vessels sailweekly hence to Whitehaven, and other Englishports, engaged principally in the importation ofcoals. The little port communicates by good publicroads with Whithorn
. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. position which might apparentlybe turned to patriotic and lucrative account. Apier, erected about half-a-century ago by the aidof the Convention of Royal Burghs, offers accom-modation to the few vessels which the unimportantcommerce of the district keeps employed. TheGalloway steamer occasionally touches here on herway to and from Liverpool; and small vessels sailweekly hence to Whitehaven, and other Englishports, engaged principally in the importation ofcoals. The little port communicates by good publicroads with Whithorn, Wigton, and Garlieston. Onthe shore at the village are vestiges of an ancientchapel or church of small size, which the learnedauthor of Caledonia says is traditionally reportedto have been the earliest place of Christian wor-ship in Scotland. Near the village is a weakchalybeate spring, whose waters are sufficientlycelebrious to draw to the place invalid , in 1840, about 420. ISSURT, a small island of the Hebrides, nearHarris. IT HAN. See 1 0 N A. JAM 59 JED JAMESS (St.), an ancient parish now includedin the parish of Kelso. It lies between the riversTeviot and Tweed. The church was situate nearto Roxburgh castle, and on the very spot where thegreatest fair in this country, as well as one of themost ancient, called St. Jamess fair, is now holdenon the 5th of August. This church was dedicatedin the year 1134. No part of it now remains aboveground, but the place where it stood is perfectlyvisible. The Duke of Roxburgh employed labourersto trace the foundation. While prosecuting their re-searches they dug up a tomb-stone which, besidessome elegant sculpture, had the following inscriptionin Saxon characters: Hie jacet Johanna Bullock,qua? obiit anno 1371. Orate pro anima ejus. His-torians mention a William Bullock, a favourite withEdward Baliol, and generally styled the Kings be-loved Clerk. As this name is seldom found inScotland, it is probable that J
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