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	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Miller of Dalswinton, Patrick (1731 — 1815)
		Son of Wiliam Miller of Glenlee and brother of Sir Thomas Miller, President of the Court of Session.
		Burns himself became a victim of Miller's habit of under estimating the time ideas take to be turned into realities: for although Ellisland was a farm that ultimately became a profitable one, it did not recover from its exhaustion until several years after Burns had left it.
		The arrangement between Miller and Burns was that Miller gave the poet £300 with which to build a farmhouse and fence the fields.
	www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/MillerofDalswintonPatrick17311511815.621.shtml (1177 words)

	Cheese Soufflés: British Recipes
		It was introduced to Scotland in the late eighteenth century by Patrick Miller of Dalswinton.
		He was a wealthy man, a director of the Bank of Scotland and Chairman of the Carron Iron Company, and had a passionate interest in mechanical and agricultural improvement.
		King Gustav III of Sweden was a satisfied customer of Carron, and he presented Miller with a gold, diamond-encrusted snuff-box bearing a miniature of himself, containing rutabaga seeds.
	www.britannia.com /cooking/recipes/bashedneeps.html (159 words)

	Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Miller, Patrick, Jun. (1769 — 1845)
		December 1789, Burns described 'Captain Miller, my landlord's son' as: 'a youth by no means above mediocrity in his abilities: and is said to have a huckster-lust for shillings, pence and farthings'.
		The poet wrote to Miller declining the position, on the grounds that his political sentiments would endanger the well-being of his familty.
		Miller heired Dalswinton on his father's death, but the estate was later sold.
	www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/MillerPatrickJun17691511845.627.shtml (590 words)

	Chapter Alexander Nasmyth of Autobiography by James Nasmyth
		Miller had made a large fortune in Edinburgh as a banker; and after he had partially retired from business, he devoted much of his spare time to useful purposes.
		Miller so much that he set himself to work to contrive some mechanical method by means of which ships of war might be set in motion, independently of wind, tide, or calms, so that Clerk's system of breaking the line might be carried into effect under all circumstances.
		Miller found that my father's taste for mechanical contrivances, and his ready skill as a draughtsman, were likely to be of much use to him, and he constantly visited the studio.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/9/70/117/24592/4.html (915 words)

	Scottish ship-building innovation
		The banker Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, just north of Dumfries, was a shareholder in the Carron Company engineering works and an enthusiastic experimenter in ordnance and naval architecture, including double or triple hulled pleasure boats propelled by cranked paddlewheels placed between the hulls.
		However, Patrick Miller, the patron of the venture, did sanction repairs and, on December 26 and 27, more successful trials were done.
		Due to Patrick Miller's unwillingness to pursue the potential of the 1789 trial, the loss of interest from Lord Dundas and the proceedings at the High Court, Symington was left out of pocket.
	www.martinfrost.ws /htmlfiles/gazette/ship_building.html (2461 words)

	Robbie Burns
		The greatest of Scottish writers, Robert Burns, wrote to Patrick Miller, Esqr.
		Dalswinton, Dumfries, of his rather romantic longing to enjoy personal industry as an "old style farmer":
		Patrick Miller was about to re-organize his fields in accordance with the emerging standards of the agricultural revolution -- it was important for him to maximize his return from the land.
	www.beamccowan.com /robbie.htm (1793 words)

	James Taylor
		After fitting himself to enter the medical profession, he was engaged, in the year 1785, by Mr Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, to superintend the education of the two sons of that gentleman, who were in attendance at the university of Edinburgh.
		It was also the aim of Mr Miller, that Mr Taylor, whose scientific acquirements had been warmly spoke of by the common friend who recommended him to the situation, should assist him in those mechanical pursuits with which for some years he had been in the habit of amusing his leisure hours.
		Mr Miller allowed the sufficiency of the power; but was disposed to deny that it could be applied, more particularly in those critical circumstances to obviate which was the chief aim of his own project.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/men/taylor_james.htm (1693 words)

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		Patrick Miller, Dalswinton To Rev. John Skinner To Miss Margaret Chalmers, Harvieston To Mrs.
		Patrick Miller, has been talking with me about a lease of some farm or other in an estate called Dalswinton, which he has lately bought near Dumfries.
		Miller is no judge of land; and though I daresay he means to favour me, yet he may give me, in his opinion, an advantageous bargain that may ruin me. I am to take a tour by Dumfries as I return, and have promised to meet Mr.
	www.robertburns.org.uk /Assets/Documents/8burn10.txt (16787 words)

	History of the Burgh of Dumfries
		Miller of his claim to be considered the originator of steam navigation; but that he not only invented the paddle-wheel, but was the first to propose the application of steam to it as a motive, power, has, we think, been proved satisfactorily.
		Miller published a pamphlet, in which, after describing his proposed mode of propelling ships, he said: "I have reason to believe that the power of the steam-engine may be applied to work wheels so as to give them a quicker motion, and consequently to increase that of the ship.
		Miller the undivided honour of the invention; and it seems sufficiently clear that Mr.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/dumfries/history48.htm (2527 words)

	cumnock living memory group website for information on your favourite ayrshire town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He was engaged as tutor to the children of Patrick MILLER of Dalswinton and as a member of this household he very likely met Robert BURNS — a tenant at Ellisland on the Estate.
		Miller of Dalswinton) carried into effect, the application of that power to the propelling of vessels.
		It was completely successfulfor though on a small scale, (being a four-inch cylinder) and with a vessel not calculated for rapid motion, they went at the rate of 5 miles an hour with ease.
	www.e-ayrshire.co.uk /local/clmg/vpage.asp?s=10&p=55 (419 words)

	Postcard of Ellisland, The Homestead of Robert Burns - Future Museum South West Scotland
		Robert Burns took on the lease of Ellisland Farm from Patrick Miller of Dalswinton from Whitsunday 1788 for a rent of £50 per year.
		It was a small unimproved holding of 170 acres situated on the bank of the River Nith about 5 miles north of the town of Dumfries.
		Miller gave Burns £300 with which to build a farm house and enclose the fields.
	www.futuremuseum.co.uk /Default.aspx?Id=91&mode=object&item=990 (185 words)

	Chapter II
		After the time of Hulls we meet with no authentic accounts of such inventions or experiments until about the time that Fitch began his work, when, in 1786 or 1787, Patrick Miller, of Dalswinton, built a boat in which he used manual power to turn paddle-wheels.
		A young student, tutor to his sons, then suggested the use of steam-power, and soon after published an account of his scheme (1787) asserting that he "had reason to believe" that the steam engine might thus be made useful.
		Miller, Taylor, and a young mechanic, William Symmington, the inventor of a new form of steam-engine, finally entered into an arrangement resulting in the construction, in 1788, of a boat only twenty-five feet long, of seven feet beam, and of rude form, which was reported to make five miles an hour.
	www.history.rochester.edu /steam/thurston/fulton/chapter2.html (3751 words)

	Biography of NASMYTH, Alexander - Anthony Woodd Gallery
		While his ancestors had been landed gentry in the Lowlands his father and grandfather were involved with the construction of some of the earliest houses in what was to be known as the New Town.
		Among his patrons was Patrick Miller of Dalswinton and it was he who lent Nasmyth £500 to enable him to go to Italy from 1782-84.
		When Nasmyth died in 1840 Sir David Wilkie wrote ‘He was the founder of the Landscape Painting School of Scotland, and by his taste and talent has for many years taken the lead in the patriotic aim of enriching his native land with the representations of her romantic scenery’.
	www.anthonywoodd.com /displaybio.php?artid=131 (1067 words)

	Allan Cunningham Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		In 1784 his father, after an unsuccessful period as a farmer, became gardener and land steward at Blackwood House, the estate of a Mr.
		When Allan was two years old, his father took a similar position working for Patrick Miller at Dalswinton.
		Miller was also Robert Burns's landlord, and Allan developed an early devotion to Burns that colored his entire life's work.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/allan-cunningham-dlb (187 words)

	Dumfries & Galloway: Gazetteer and places of interest
		: Here in 1788 Patrick Miller and William Symington experimented with one of the world’s first steamboat.
		(1810): Roofless circular rubble tower built by Patrick Miller as monument to Rev Richardson.
		Nunholm railway viaducts: John Miller’s 1850 Martinton Bridge for the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, and the sharply skewed 1859 Nith Viaduct for the ‘Port Line’.
	www.cast.org.uk /D-J.htm (4577 words)

	ScotsteXt! Roughs
		Sir William Miller, Bart., afterwards a distinguished Judge under the title of Lord Glenlee, entered the Faculty in the year 1777, and was on the bench from 1795 till his resignation in 1840.
		Mr T. Miller, son of Mr Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, entered in the year 1802; Mr John Millar of Ballingall in 1806; Mr James Miller in 1819; Mr William Miller in 1823; Mr James Miller, son of Lord Glenlee, in 1825; and Mr John Miller, jun., in 1829.
		He was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, and ultimately a Judge of the Court of Session under the title of Lord Robertson.
	www.scotstext.org /roughs/george_outram/notes.asp (6090 words)

	Men of Invention and Industry - CHAPTER II. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Many other efforts of a similar kind were made,--by Savery among others,[4]--until we come down to Patrick Miller, of Dalswinton, who, in 1787, invented a double-hulled boat, which he caused to be propelled on the Firth of Forth by men working a capstan which drove the paddles on each side.
		The men soon became exhausted, and on Miller mentioning the subject to William Symington, who was then exhibiting his road locomotive in Edinburgh, Symington at once said, "Why don't you employ steam-power?"
		Miller was impressed by the idea, and proceeded to order a steam-engine for the purpose of trying the experiment.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/biography/MenofInventionandIndustry/chap2.html (5967 words)

	Robert Burns: Letters
		I was still more unlucky in catching a miserable cold, for which the medical gentlemen have ordered me into close confinement under pain of death—the severest of penalties.
		These are my views and wishes; and in whatever way you think best to lay out your farms I shall be happy to rent one of them.
		I shall certainly be able to ride to Dalswinton about the middle of next week, if I hear that you are not gone.—I have the honour to be, Sir, your obliged humble servant,
	www.scotlands.com /robertburns/letters/63.html (273 words)

	Election Ballad for Westerhall
		The Duke is assimilated to "Bobbin' John", John Erskine, the Earl of Mar, who supported at first James II Stuart's cause,(3) but abandoned him after the battle of Sherrifmuir (13 th November 1715).
		Bands of belted Borderers,(7) notorious partisans of Patrick Miller, mounted on horseback, assembled in Dumfries on the morning of the polling, to influence the issue of the election.
		Des bandes de Frontaliers en uniforme,(7) partisans notoires de Patrick Miller, chevauchant leurs montures, se réunirent à Dumfries le matin des élections pour en influencer l'issue.
	chrsouchon.free.fr /upanwaun.htm (554 words)

	Preview: Alexander Nasmyth: An Enlightened Gentleman
		They spent many days and nights together, walking, drinking and talking, and after one night in the taverns of Edinburgh’s High Street, they walked seven miles to Roslin, where Nasmyth sketched Burns on the spot.
		The two were introduced, it’s thought, by Patrick Miller of Dalswinton.
		When Nasmyth was just 20, Miller asked him for help in designing a paddleboat.
	www.artandphilosophy.com /070225.html (651 words)

	Chemical Properties of Silicone
		Scotland, had developed double-hulled boats propelled by cranked paddlewheels placed between the hulls, and he engaged the engineer
		William Symington to built his patent steam engine into a boat which was successfully tried out on Dalswinton Loch in
		Miller then abandoned the project, but ten years later Symington was engaged by
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/steam_boat.htm (1239 words)

	when and where was the first paddleboat built and successfully stayed afloat?
		Paddleboats were built in China from the 5th-6th Centuries,[2] and according to the Water Margin were used in the 12th century.
		The next successful attempt at a paddle-driven steam ship was by the Scottish engineer William Symington who suggested steam power to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton.[3] Experimental boats built in 1788 and 1789 worked successfully; in 1802, Symington built a barge-hauler, Charlotte Dundas, for the Forth and Clyde Canal Company.
		In 1543 Blasco Garay in Barcelona made an experimental vessel propelled by a paddle-wheel on each side, worked by forty men, and in 1787 Patrick Miller of Dalswinton invented a double-hulled boat, which was propelled on the Firth of Forth by men working a capstan which drove paddles on each side.
	www.duno.com /answers/17079 (543 words)

	Free Zodiac Tattoo Design
		Such a result of these papers, of the electric current, was found amongst the slain.
		Indeed, free zodiac tattoo design seemed to her, half-awake, half-asleep, that the means were provided for down to Patrick Miller, of Dalswinton, who, in 1787, briefly described under the Civil War high prices for wool ceased.
		Free zodiac tattoo design took up their stations on the streaming drive.
	mfive.info /blog/3978/3297.html (487 words)

	Scran - Letter of Robert Burns to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, dated Mauchline, 3rd March, 1788
		Scran - Letter of Robert Burns to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, dated Mauchline, 3rd March, 1788
		Title: Letter of Robert Burns to Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, dated Mauchline, 3rd March, 1788
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	www.scran.ac.uk /database/record.php?usi=000-000-489-126-C (91 words)

	Historical perspective for Ellisland Farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Extending to 170 acres, it was rented for £50 a year by Robert Burns (1759-96) from Whitsunday 1788 to December 1791, his landlord being Mr Patrick Miller of Dalswinton.
		A new five-roomed house was built; the farm has a kindly soil, its holmland portion loamy and rich; and its walks by the river-side command fair views of Friars Carse, Dalswinton, and Cowhill Tower.
		An accompanying 19th C. Ordnance Survey map is available.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/features/featurehistory9549.html (380 words)

	Scran - Letter of Robert Burns to Peter (Patrick) Miller, of Dalswinton, by Dumfries; Edinburgh 17th Sept, 1787
		Scran - Letter of Robert Burns to Peter (Patrick) Miller, of Dalswinton, by Dumfries; Edinburgh 17th Sept, 1787
		Title: Letter of Robert Burns to Peter (Patrick) Miller, of Dalswinton, by Dumfries; Edinburgh 17th Sept, 1787
		Click below to see more records from Burns Monument Trust.
	www.scran.ac.uk /database/record.php?usi=000-000-489-119-C (95 words)

	S.A.F.H.S. Bulletin -- p.3
		The next project is to index the Society Magazine since its inception.
		Our first meeting of the 2007 syllabus was held this month, when Morag Williams, archivist of the Health Board gave a well-researched talk about Patrick Miller, Laird of Dalswinton, a steamboat enthusiast.
		Her presence was especially appreciated, since she stepped into the breach when the original speaker had to cancel at the last minute because of illness.
	www.safhs.org.uk /bulletin/aprl-2007/bltn-p3.htm (1803 words)

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