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Mainhill, a solitary, low, white-washed cottage in Hoddam parish, Dumfriesshire, 3 miles NW of Ecclefechan. From 1814 to 1826 it was the home of Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). Here he' first learned German, studied Faust in a dry ditch, and completed his translation of Wilhelm Meister. . . . The situation is high, utterly bleak, and swept by all the winds. Not a tree shelters the premises.. The view alone redeems the dreariness.'-Ord. Sur., sh. 10, 1864. See chap. iii. of Froude's Life of Carlyle (1882).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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