Dumfries, an agricultural market-town, county town of Dumfriesshire and a seaport, stands on the left bank of the Nith, with Maxwelltown as suburb on the right, 90 m. SW. of Edinburgh; manufactures tweeds and hosiery, and trades in cattle; here Robert Burns spent the last five years of his life, and his remains lie buried.
Population (circa 1900) given as 18,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dumesnil, Marie Françoise * Dumfriesshire