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ANNANDALE, basin of river Annan. It begins with a mountain glen about 5 miles long, forms then the vast hollow of the Deil's Beef-Tub, and is thence to the firth a beautiful, fertile, hill-screened valley, called the How of Annandale, partly from 15 to 18 miles wide. It contained strong posts of the Romans ; be-came the property and lordship of the royal Bruces, passed to the Earl of Moray, the Earls of Dunbar, and the Earls of Douglas, and gave the title of earl from 1643, and of marquis from 1701 till 1792, to the Johnstones.
