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 beginning. The above detail is perfectly accurate, so far as it goes, and has been taken from a letter written by the Rev. A ——— H——— minister, Kilmarnock. A woman, whose name we have not learnt, but who was housekeeper to the schoolmaster at Muirkirk, dropped down dead while looking at the men who were cutting the snow. H——— H———, residing near Heathwood, perished on the 2nd, on Corrie Common, and at no great distance from her own house. She had been at Waterbeck, and her body was not discovered till the Monday following. In the course of Sabbath one of her sons passed and repassed the spot where she lay, but the vital spark had previously fled, and from the depth of the snow, no part of her body was visible. Two women, it is said, were dug out of a wreath near Kellhead toll-bar, and there is a report of a woman having fallen a victim to the storm, somewhere between Annan and Lockerby,

The Carlisle Patriot of Saturday states, that "a woman belonging to Longtown, lost her life in the snow. She had been to Springfield after smuggled whisky, and was relieved of her burden by an Excise officer. Not disheartened, she returned for more; and on her way homewards, wandered out of her road upon Solway Moss, and perished. She was found on the ground, her head on her umbrella, and two bladders of contraband spirits lying beside her." It is even said that two shepherds perished in the parish of Durrisdeer, and that one respectable