Dumfries

dum-fres', a Scottish town on the River Nith, about six miles from the Firth of Solway. It boasts the oldest bridge in Scotland. In the church of a monastery here Robert Bruce slew the Red Comyn. Though a stirring town in ancient border days, it is now a trading city of 20,000 people. It is full of monuments of the past and is proud of possessing the last resting place of Robert Burns. This is a six-sided Greek edifice sheltering a marble group which represents the muse of Scotland robing the plowman poet with the mantle of inspiration as he stands by his plow. See Ayrshire; Burns