Dumfriesshire, a south-western Border county of Scotland; an agricultural district, which slopes from a northern pastoral region to the Solway, and is traversed by the fertile valleys of Nithsdale and Annandale.
Population (circa 1900) given as 74,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dumfries * Dumnorix