. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . t of £3000, and, besidesburgh offices, contains a large com-t and council hall,where sheriff courts sit thrice a-year, and justice of peacesmall debt courts on the first ]\Ionday of every is market-day, and hir-ing fairs are held on the firstFriday of May and August andthe third Friday of October. Ator near the town are a cottonmill (1785), a manure factory,a tannery, a distUlery, 5 bacon-curing establishments, 2 rope-walks, and 2 saw mills ; and aconsiderable trade is d
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . t of £3000, and, besidesburgh offices, contains a large com-t and council hall,where sheriff courts sit thrice a-year, and justice of peacesmall debt courts on the first ]\Ionday of every is market-day, and hir-ing fairs are held on the firstFriday of May and August andthe third Friday of October. Ator near the town are a cottonmill (1785), a manure factory,a tannery, a distUlery, 5 bacon-curing establishments, 2 rope-walks, and 2 saw mills ; and aconsiderable trade is done withLiverpool and Whitehaven inthe export of grain, wool, bacon,and live-stock, and the importof coal, slate, iron, herrings,salt, etc. The port is free, and ships of 250 tons canascend to within ^ mile of the town, but larger vesselsmust load and discharge at two wooden jetties, 420 feetlong, at the mouth of the river. Here, by the AnnanWaterfoot Dock and Railway Co. Bill (1881), it is pro-posed to construct a dock on the E side of the river, cover-ing 5i ao-es, and connected with the Solway Junction. Seal of Annan. ANNAN railway by a branch of 7^ frndongs—the whole to befinished in five years time, on a capital of £66,000 in£10 shares. Places of worship are the parish chiu-ch(1790; 1190 sittings) with an elegant spire, a Free chm-ch(1845), all. P. chm-ch, an Independent church, a Churchof Christ, St Johns Episcopal church (1843; 140sittiugs),and St Columbas Roman Catholic church (1839; 300 sit-tings). The Academy, rebuilt in 1820, is an excellenthigher-class school, at whose predecessor Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881) led a doleful and hateful life (1803-10)under Old Adam Hope, and later was mathematical mas-ter (1814-15). Distinguished Annanites were the blindpoetThomas Blacklock (1721-91), James Johnstone, (1730-1802), Bryce Johnstone, (1747-1805), HughClapperton (1788-1827), the African explorer, and EdwardIrving (1792-1834), the great-souled founder of a littl
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