[5] The present Memoir has been prepared, at our request, by Francis Bennoch, Esq.

[6] A beautiful sylvan stream, falling from the uplands into the Annan, between Ecclefechan and Lockerbie.

[7] This facetious composition, in the original form, extends to considerably greater length.

[8] Printed from the Author's MS.

[9] Written for the present work.

[10] Written for the present work.

[11] The present Memoir has been contributed by James Donaldson, Esq., Edinburgh.

[12] See "Minstrel," vol. iv. p. [1].

[13] Composed in the author's fourteenth year.

[14] Composed at the age of fifteen.