IN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FEW

OF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED UPON

LOCAL TRADITION.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

FIFTH EDITION.

The songs, to savage virtue dear,
That won of yore the public ear, .
Ere Polity, sedate and sage,
Had quench'd the fires of feudal rage.—Warton.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

LONDON ; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.

1821.