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94 all the way, you will save a long round in a carriage, by a road not at all worth seeing.

From Lanark to Douglas Mill inn, 12 miles.

A bad inn; but a new one was building in 1796. Douglas Castle is about two miles from the inn, in the road towards Ayr. You must be sure to set out very early from Lanark, that you may reach Moffat before dark, it being impossible to put up at Elvan Foot; you can there only change horses, and those you will seldom get very good, for that country being very hilly, the poor horses are worked to death.

From Douglas Mill to Elvan Foot, 15 miles.

At Elvan Foot, the Elvan water joins the Clyde, which you there cross; and about four miles farther you will cross it again near its source.

Just before you descend the long and steep hill that leads down into Annandale, you will join the Edinburgh road to Moffat, and you will then be not far off the source of Tweed.

Moffat is situated near the head of Annandale, and is distant from Elvan Foot, 14 miles. The country about Moffat is worth looking at, and the inn there is very good.