Excerpt from History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton, Vol. 1: Kyle, Part II Is the manufacture of wooden snuff-boxes, upon the principle of the invisible hinge, and other fancy articles of the same material. There is a pottery in the town, where brown ware of very superior quality is made. There is also a manu factory of thrashing-machinea cheese-pressers, &c. The thrashing mills made in it are of the very best construction, and are held in high repute in the west of Scotland. A con siderable number are sent to Ireland. The chief dependence of the inhabitants is weaving. Cumnock parish was origin ally much larger than it is now, that portion of it called New Cumnock having been separated from it in 1650. The Sou th western Railway, which passes within a short distance of Cumnock, has much improved the district. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.