This little volume makes no pretension to any literary merit, but seeks merely to supply, in handy form, a list of places of outstanding historical interest in the Counties-of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and Wigtown, and to give brief notes concerning them in connection with historic events in which each played a part, which may prove of service to visitors to this portion of the Borders, and to the public in general." - From the preface.