twenty-seven years, died at his seat of Broadlees 29th January 1869. The husband of Margaret Wells, who is named on the first monument, was the eldest son of the Rev. Andrew Ewart, and was for several years Sheriff-Substitute of Dumfriesshire. He was the same James Ewart of Mullock who is commemorated on the third stone together with his second wife, Margaret Christie of Bakerton, Edinburgh, and their children. Andrew, their eldest son, was killed in early manhood by a fall from his horse. Peter, their youngest son, built the mansion of Rosefield, Troqueer, of which parish his uncle John was minister, and in the burialground of that church the worthy clergyman reposes. The inscription on his tombstone may here be given in connection with the epitaphs of his kindred, as quoted above: "In memory of the Rev. John Ewart, for fifty-eight years the revered pastor of this parish, who died 5th September 1799, in the 84th year of his age; leaving to his successor and surviving brethren a bright example of the kind affections which endear, and the Christian virtues that adorn, the sacred office that he so long and so faithfully filled." The next mural tablet we have to notice was erected near the south-east corner by William Johnston, a successful West India planter, in remembrance of his spouse, Rebecca Ressin, who died at Kelton 2nd January, 1802, aged 43. After realising a handsome competency in Demerara, of which island Mrs. Johnston was a native, Mr. Johnston spent his latter days in the neighbourhood of Dumfries. The tablet, a neat marble one, now very much decayed, commemorates also himself, died 17th November, 1846, aged 73; and his mother Elizabeth Rowlandson, died 18th March 1789, aged 50. A slab laid in front of Mr. Linn's monument bears the name of John Brand, watchmaker, died 15th December 1802, aged 48; also those of his sons Joseph and William, the former of whom died 24th June 1799, aged 21; the latter 4th August 1810, aged 28. The following verse from Gray's Elegy is embodied in the inscription : "Can storied urn or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath; Below these beautiful lines, which must often recur to the memory of churchyard musers, appears a merited tribute to James Brand, representing him as "an affectionate husband, a fond father, and a sincere friend," who died " deeply regretted." Close to the Archibald memorial rises a stone commemorating Robert Dickson of Kenbank, who for several years practised as a surgeon in the Burgh, died 14th June 1816, aged 42; also Gordon Wylie, his spouse; William, their infant son; and Janet, Mr. Dickson's sister, wife of William Dobie, Kingholm Quay, died 7th October 1832, aged 53. On the marble tablet of a mural monument, adjoining the Terraughtie ground, on the east side, we read as follows: "Sacred to the memory of John Johnston, of Netherwood, Esq., an eminent merchant of the city of London, and one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County. He died the 28th day of April 1760, aged 65 years. This monument was erected in grateful remembrance by his brother, George Johnston, Esq., of London, merchant.” Passing from the Old Churchyard and the Old Church, with all their venerable memorials and hallowed associations, we proceed, in the chapters which remain, to notice the modern portion of the Cemetery. CHAPTER THE NEW XXVIII, GROUND. ITS PURCHASE BY THE HERITORS. OWARDS the close of 1848, when Dumfries was suffering from a second visitation of cholera, the Kirk Session originated a movement for increasing the burial-ground of the parish. This they did on the 13th of December, by arranging for a joint meeting of the Burgh magistrates and landward heritors, which was held on the 28th, with the view of taking the subject into consideration. There were present-Provost Kennedy (in the chair), Bailie Nicholson, Bailie Leighton, Francis Maxwell, for F. C. Maxwell of Milnhead, J. B. Hepburn of Castledykes, Archibald Hamilton, for William M'Lellan of High Kelton, Philip Forsyth, one of the trustees of the late William Forsyth of Ladyfield, and Alexander Simpson, writer, for Mr. Campbell of Craigs. Drs. Wallace and Thomas T. Duncan were also in attendance. Mr. Hamilton initiated the proceedings with a few remarks, shewing that the Session felt themselves compelled by the crowded state of St. Michael's Churchyard to take steps for securing additional accommodation. After some discussion, a committee was appointed to consider “the whole matter" and report upon it, which they did to an adjourned meeting held 23d January 1849. Several pieces of ground were recommended by them as suitable, more especially "a small field about an acre in extent belonging to Mr [Charles] Hogg, adjoining the Churchyard at the east corner," which, they said, would "form merely an extension of the present burying-ground, and in the least objectionable quarter, being that furthest removed from any dwellings in the town." It was further stated by the committee that the owner of the field was quite prepared to sell it, and that "with the relief now afforded by St. Mary's burying-ground this addition would be sufficient for the wants of the parish for several generations." Mr. Hogg, on being negotiated with, agreed to take £280 for the field, excluding cost of titles, and the bargain was ratified by a meeting of the magistrates and heritors, held 29th November 1850, at which there were present the Rev. Dr. Wallace, Provost Nicholson, Bailie Leighton, Robert Kemp, Town-Clerk, James Hairstens of Acrehead, and John Thorburn, acting for Mr. Stott of Netherwood and proprietor of Mountainhall; the meeting resolving further that the disposition of the ground be taken "in favour of William Nicholson, present Provost, John Scott, present senior Bailie, and their successors in office, and of James Hairstens of Acrehead, Robert Threshie, and James Stewart, factor for William Douglas of Craigs, for behoof of the whole heritors of the parish." By means of a bill which these parties granted, the field was bought, and afterwards regularly laid out and enclosed according to a plan prepared by Bailie Andrew Crombie, architect. In 1862 the sums expended in purchasing the ground and adapting it for a place of sepulture had with interest risen to £674; the wall costing £107 17s 3d, levelling and superintendence £28 17s 10d, and the laying out of the walks £5. As a set off on the other side, £131 1s 6d had been received for grave plots at the same date; and nine years afterwards a goodly balance had been realised. On 19th June 1871, Mr. James H. M'Gowan, as clerk to the heritors, reported to a meeting of that body a balance of £347, as shewn by the accounts, which sum was divided among the parties who had advanced the purchase money; and out of the half of it which fell to the Burgh the Town Council voted £150 towards the expense of reseating the lower part of St. Michael's Church. From a second balance another dividend of £320 16s was declared on 10th June 1875, by means of which the whole sums advanced, with the interest upon them, were paid off; and there are allotments of space still remaining which when sold will yield another surplus. GENERAL APPEARANCE OF THE GROUND. On entering the ground through the wide ungated gap made in the old east wall we see at a glance that the dust of many hundred persons must be lying sepulchred below its turf. The ground, extending to an imperial acre, is oblong in shape, and already its walls on the north, south, and west are nearly covered with mortuary literature and sculpture; while a large portion of its surface "heaves with mouldering heaps," or is becoming florid with monumental erections. Many of the memorials are beautiful works of art, and their general appearance is imposing, though the element of the venerable, which gives a special character to the Old Ground, is nowhere to be seen. We look in vain for altar or tablestones, so many of which were noticed in preceding chapters: they went out of fashion just before the New Ground was opened, and their place is here occupied with headstones— usually larger in size and more graceful in shape than those displayed by the old part of the Cemetery and with imposing pillars, shafts, canopies, and pyramids. Of Latin, long emphatically the language of epitaphs, no trace is found, except occasionally on a heraldic escutcheon, its use for monumental purposes being rare during the current century; sorrowing friends now preferring to commemorate their dead in the living language of the country, and generally making the record briefer and less elaborate than was customary in preceding centuries. How rapidly cell is being added to cell in this underground suburb of the modern Dumfriesians of those who lately breathed and had their being in the animated town, and who are now making populous the narrow houses constructed for them by the sextonarchitect! We need not particularise in detail all the various edifices which, rising above the surface, present a striking contrast to the hidden dormitories with which they stand related; and even were we to do so the inventory that would be complete to-day would become fragmentary a few years hence, so rapidly is the soil becoming "sown" with the seed corn of humanity, deceased and disorganised, yet having in it the germs of a life that will never end. Meanwhile, therefore, we shall only notice in detail such monuments as have been erected in honour of noteworthy individuals, or which |