Excerpt from Caledonia: A Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain, From the Most Ancient to the Present Times With a Dictionary of Places Chorographical and Philological
Scottish history, from the earliest periods of her annals, I now presume to offer to the inquisitive public a third volume of my Caledonia.
The first volume was chiefly occupied in the investigation of the Roman period, ending in 446 a.d. ;of the Pictish period, which closed with 843 A.D., and in ascertaining the darksome notices of the Scottish period that closed in 1097 a.d.
The second volume was principally employed in giving the local history of the seven south-eastern shires, namely, Roxburgh, Berwick, Haddington, Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Peebles and Selkirk, under distinct topics.
The present volume, after a preliminary chapter, comprehends detailed accounts of the seven south-western shires, namely, Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbright, Wigton, Ayr, Lanark, Renfrew, and Dumbartonshire; and those detailed accounts are given under eight several heads; the first section will investigate the name of each; the second, its situation; the third, its natural objects; the fourth, its antiquities; the fifth, its establishment as a shire; the sixth. Its civil history; the seventh, its agriculture, manufactures, and trade; the eighth, its ecclesiastical state.
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