IN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SCOTLAND; WITH A FEW

OF MODERN DATE, FOUNDED UPON

LOCAL TRADITION.

The songs, to savage virtue dear,
That won of yore the public ear,
Ere Polity, sedate and sage,
Hlad 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.