Thomas Murray 
Literary History of Galloway [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Of The Literary History of Galloway, which first appeared in 1822, a new impression is now presented to the public. The extraneous matter, which the original work embraced, has been omitted; much extravagance, in regard both to sentiment and diction, has been corrected; and the whole has undergone a thorough revisal. Nor is this all: Nineteen new articles, of which sixteen are altogether original, have been added; and the present volume may be considered rather as a new work than as the republication of one already before the world. Its execution is not, I am aware, worthy of the important materials of which it is composed; yet I flatter myself, that, with all its imperfections, it will be regarded as constituting some addition, however slight, to the biographical literature of Scotland.<br><br>Of the numerous Lives which the volume includes, the subjects of several were but slightly connected with Galloway.