Nith, a beautiful Scottish river, rising in Ayrshire, and flowing 71 miles south-south-eastward (mainly through Dumfriesshire), until, 14 miles below Dumfries, its estuary joins the Solway Firth.
Nith
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 507
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