Annan

The real alternatives are the Annan plan or all-out civil war.

His desire was to be in Scotland, and he made his way northwards by the usual sea route to Annan and Scotsbrig.

He had landed about an hour earlier and gone to a farm to ask for a horse and trap and had sent a man to Annan for a doctor.

That "the bigwigs in the world of science spoke of Annan with enthusiasm."

Mr. Annan and he between them had left no means untried, she said.

But there is a tributary burn which runs a longer course than this, rising in the hills much nearer to the head-waters of Annan.