GLENCAPLE-QUAY, a village, in the parish of
Caerlaverock, county of Dumfries, 4^ miles (S. S. E.)
from Dumfries; containing 268 inhabitants. The village
is situated on the eastern bank of the Nith, and
has a small harbour, the water of which is twelve feet
deep at spring tides. Vessels bound for Dumfries, to
which town this port is subsidiary, unload here when
unable from their burthen to reach the place of their
destination; and much employment is afforded to the
male population, as carriers, in consequence. A road
from the village runs in a northern direction, and partly
along the shore, to Dumfries. A short distance hence,
close by the river, was a cell or chapel dedicated to
St. Coluraba; and near it is a well, where persons who
drank of its water usually deposited alms.