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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1891 Excerpt: ... THE OLD PUR MARKET OP DUMFRIES. By Robert Service. T what time the old Fur Market in Dumfries became a l. recognised institution is unknown, and the phrase "from time immemorial" may be set down as more or less aptly applying to its beginnings. In the earliest part of this century it had reached large proportions, and was then regarded "as the first fur market in the United Kingdom" (Dumfries Courier, February 27th, 1816). In Brewster's Cyclopedia it is said:--"At the Horse Fair in February a larger quantity of hareskins is annually disposed of than in any other town in Scotland; not fewer, on an average, than 30,000. And in Fleming's "British Animals" (1828, p. 21) there is another reference to the Fair:--"In Scotland the skins (of hares) are collected by itinerant dealers, and annually sold in the February market in Dumfries, sometimes to the amount of 30,000." And again in the " New Statistical Account" of Dumfries-shire (1835, p. 21) it is stated:--" At the Fair in February an incredible quantity of hareskins is purchased. The average number cannot be under 30,000, and one year no less a sum than 6000 is said to have been paid for that one article."1 These are all the references I can find in general literature in regard to this once famous trade, and the following statistics have been compiled from the market reports in the old files of the Dumfries Courier, kindly placed at my disposal by the proprietors. Of course these figures have been prepared entirely from the naturalists' point of view, but at the same time, I may express a hope that the compilation may prove not altogether without interest to others than naturalists. Now-a-days the fur market is as unknown to the general populace of Dumfries as if it had never existed, altho' it survived until ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1153993481
- ISBN 13 9781153993487
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages60
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