DUMBENNAN, old parish, now part of Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
DUMBRECK, seat near south-western outskirts of Glasgow.
DUMBROCH, lake and bleachfield in Strathblane parish, Stirlingshire.
DUMBUCK, village, seat, and hill, adjacent to the Clyde, about a mile east of Dumbarton Castle. The hill stoops precipitously to the plain, overawes the castle, and commands a grand view.
DUMBUILS, low craggy hill, with re-mains of ancient fort, and with very fine view, in Forgandenny parish, Perthshire.
DUMCRIEFF, a seat of Lord Rollo, If mile east-north-east of Moffat, Dumfriesshire.
DUMFIN, round hill, with traces of ancient fortification, fabled to have been a stronghold of Fingal, 4 miles north-north-east of Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire.
DUMFRIES, town and parish on south-west border of Dumfriesshire. The town stands on the Nith, 71 miles by road, but 89$ miles by railway, south-by-west of Edinburgh; is environed by rich, extensive, hill-screened plain ; dates from at least the time of William the Lion, but may have sprung from a village so early as the 8th century ; had an ancient strong castle which figured much in the succes-sional and international wars ; contained an ancient Franciscan friary, in which Robert Bruce slewthe RedComyn ; suffered severely from English forces in 1448, 1536, and 1570 ; underwent rapid change of character from the times of Border contests to the times of peaceful industry ; ranks now as the political capital of Dumfriesshire, a seat of justiciary courts, the business centre of the south-western counties, and a royal and parliamentary burgh; unites with Annan, Lochmaben, Sanquhar, and Kirkcudbright in sending a member to Parliament ; includes, as a parliamentary burgh, the Kirkcudbrightshire Maxwelltown, separated from it only by the Nith ; measures in itself about a mile in length along the river, and about 3 furlongs in greatest breadth ; comprises a many-featured main street, several handsome new streets, and a number of old ones ; carries on a brisk market trade and extensive woollen manufacture ; publishes 3 newspapers, 1 of them weekly, the others twice a-week ; and has a head post office with all departments, a very fine railway station, 7 banking offices, 4 hotels, a large modern town hall, a curious steepled block of buildings which contained the old town hall, grand county buildings erected in 1863-66, the south-western counties' central prison, projected in 1881, the southern counties' club-house, built in 1874, a fine theatre, mostly rebuilt in 1876, a curious bridge of the 13th century, a neat bridge of 1794, a foot suspension-bridge of 1876, an old monument of the Duke of Queensberry, a monument of Burns, erected in 1881, a beautiful steepled Established church of 1866-68, 2 other steepled Established churches, 3 Free churches, 3 United Presbyterian churches, a steepled Episcopalian church of 1867-69, a steepled Roman Catholic church, renovated in 1879, a Baptist church of 1880, Congregational, Evangelical Union, Wesleyan, and Catholic Apostolic churches, a large public academy of 1802, 2 costly public schools of ^876, a large church-like mechanics' institute, a spacious costly infirmary of 1869-72, the southern counties' asylum, erected from a bequest of more than 100,000 by Dr. Crichton of Friar's Carse, with intention of its being a university, a remarkably crowded cemetery, containing the mausoleum of the poet Burns, and, near that cemetery, the house in which Burns spent his last years and died. Pop. of parliamentary burgh, 17,090. The parish contains also the villages of Gasstown, Stoop, Locharbriggs, and Lochthorn. Its length is 8 miles ; its greatest breadth 3 miles ; its area 10,032 acres. Real property of landward part in 1880-81, 20,456. Pop., quoad civilia, 16,838 ; quoad sacra, 6815. Most of the surface, excepting part of a low hill-ridge in the south, is nearly level. A strip of Lochar moss is on the eastern border. Several small lakes are near the centre. The principal rock is red sand-stone. Numerous handsome villas are near the town. 13 schools for 2904 scholars are in the parish, and 2 of them for 900 are new.
DUMFRIES-GREYFRIARS, quoad sacra parish, with church, in Dumfries. Pop. 4259.
