Excerpt from Caledonia, or a Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain From the Most Ancient to the Present Times, Vol. 6: With a Dictionary of Places Chorographical and Philological The Crichtons, who were created viscounts of Ayr in 1622, and earls of Dum fries in 1633, were unknown either in the one shire or the other at that mem crable era. The Dalrymples who, in 1703, acquired the earldom of Stair, were latterly men of great talents, though this circumstance adds nothing to their antiquity or to the colonisation of Ayr (z). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.