about eighteen years ago, it now contains nearly eighteen hundred souls; who are chiefly supported by the extensive cotton-works which were erected by David Dale, esq. of Glasgow, and Mr. Alexander, his partner, in the year 1787. The works are now the property of Messrs. Kirkman, Finlay, and Co. of Glasgow. The manufactory has a lofty and extensive front, closely glazed. Coming suddenly and unexpectedly through a country, wild as this is, upon such an object, glittering in the full blaze of a noon-tide sun, it has a most magnificent appearance; and, at the moment, seems rather the effect of magic than reality.

LINCLUDEN COLLEGE*.

THIS religious institution was founded by Uthered, father to Roland, lord of Galloway, during the reign of Malcolm the Fourth, king of Scotland; who placed here a convent of nuns, of the Benedictine order, and endowed it with diverse lands, lying within the baronies of Corse Michael and Drumsleith, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Archibald the Grim, earl of Douglas, a man of singular piety, provoked by the immoral conduct of the nuns, who disregarded his admonitions, formed the resolution of expelling them, which he effected, prior to the year 1400; and established in their room a college, consisting of a provost and twelve beadsmen.

On the death of the last provost, A. D. 1565, Lincluden became a temporary barony, and formed part of the possessions of the family of Nithsdale: we are informed, that it is now the property of William Hagerston Maxwell Constable, esq.

The venerable ruins of this college are situated about a mile and a half north-west from Dumfries, on the banks of the Clouden, a tributary stream to the river Nith. The structure,

* See the poem intituled, A Vision.