The villages are proportionately defective with the towns; but there are still evidences of improvement. That of Dalbeattie, ornamented as it is with its chapel of St. Peter's, and its fine garden, bears a slight resemblance to an English village. Catrine is decidedly the most regular in all its arrangements, and the cleanest. There are in this village four libraries, a school, and two chapels, independently of the parish church, supported entirely by the villagers. The manufactory of Mr. Buchanan, here, is a grand and admirably regulated establishment; and the overshot water-wheel, 40 ft. in diameter, constructed of cast-iron buckets, with wrought-iron rods as arms, and, like Jones's patent carriage-wheels (Ency. of Agr., 2d edit., $ 2749. fig. 382.), acting on the suspension principle, is alone worth going many miles to see.
