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338 KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE.
Welcome soft bed, sweet sleep, fair night to me.
Thrice welcome Christ who has sanctified you three.
Eepent in time, your lives amend.
That in Christ Jesus ye a' may end."
A stone with the date 1626 is thus inscribed : —
" By faith in Christ I lived and died,
In hope have laid my body down ;
My soul is ascended to adore
The Saviour in celestial glore,
With whom she sal cum and recal
Those corps agane out of her grave,
And there in joy triumphantlie
Derive delight perpetual."
A plain tombstone marks the grave of William Marshall, tinker,
who died in 1792, at the reinarkable age of one hundred and twenty.
In Galtway Churchyard a monument commemorates Thomas
Lidderdale, of St. Mary's Isle, wdio died on the 10th February, 1687.
St. Mary's Isle is now a seat of the Earl of Selkirk.
PAEISH OF KIEKMABEECK.
A handsome granite pillar denotes the grave of Dr. Thomas
Brown, the celebrated metaphysician. Dr. Brown was born in
Kirkmabreck manse, on the 9th January, 1778 ; his father and grand-
father were ministers of the parish. His father dying when he was
eighteen months old, his upbringing devolved upon his mother, a
woman of great worth and varied accomplishments. In 1792 he
entered the University of Edinburgh, where he proved an expert
student in ethical and medical science. In 1803 he passed as M.D.,
when he was honoured with high encomiums from Dr. Gregory.
Continuing his philosophical pursuits, he w^as in session 1808-9
appointed to conduct the Moral Philosophy class of Professor
Dugald Stewart. In the year following he was constituted joint