CRIEFF JUNCTION, railway station, 11J miles south-east of Crieff, Perthshire.
CRIEFF (WEST), quoad sacra parish, with church, in Crieff town, Perthshire. Pop. 2114.
CRIEVE, hill in Tundergarth parish, Dumfriesshire.
CRIFFEL, mountain, about 6 miles long and 1830 feet high, culminating at 10 miles south of Dumfries, overhanging right side of the Nith's influx to Solway Firth, and commanding an extensive view.
CRIMELS, place on coast of Eyemouth parish, Berwickshire.
CRIMOND, parish on coast of Buchan, midway between Peterhead and Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office of its own name under Peterhead. Its length is about 5J miles ; its greatest breadth about 3J miles ; its area 5892 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 5998. Pop., quoad civilia, 832 ; quoad sacra, 810. The coast includes Rattray Head, is mostly a broad belt of flat beach and sandy hills, and rises thence abruptly to a height of about 200 feet: and the interior first descends gradually from that height, and then ascends gently to the south and the south-west. Excellent building stone is quarried. The church is modern, and contains 500 sittings ; and the public school has about 139 scholars.
CRIMONDMOGATE, seat of Sir George Bannerman, Bart., in Lonmay parish, Aberdeenshire.
CRINAN, seaport village, sea-loch, and canal in Argyleshire. The village stands on upper part of the loch, 9 miles west-north-west of Ardrishaig, and has a post office under Lpchgilphead, a hotel, a wharf, and a lighthouse. The loch ex-tends 4^ miles south-westward to Sound of Jura, and is tame and narrow at the head, but very picturesque lower down, :ind 3 miles wide at the mouth. The canal goes from the village on the loch to vicinity of Ardrishaig on Loch Gilp ; was formed in 1793-1801, and much improved at successive times; and conveys vessels of less than 200 tons burden direct from Greenock to the Western seas.
CRINGLETIE, seat, 3J miles north of Peebles.
CRIOMABHAL, hill, 1500 feet high, on north side of Loch Resort, in Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
CROACHY, place, with Episcopalian chapel, in Daviot parish, Inverness-shire.
CROCKETFORD, village, 10 miles north-east of Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire. It has a post office under Dumfries, and a public school with about 70 scholars.
CROE, short river, running impetuously to east end of Loch Duich, Ross-shire.
CROFTDYKE, suburb of Ceres, in Fife.
CROFTHEAD, town, 3f miles south-west of Whitburn, Linlithgowshire. It stands amid a bleak, moorish mineral field, is of recent origin, consists of Crofthead-Pro-per and Fauldhouse, and has a post office of Fauldhouse, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Linlithgowshire, railway stations of Crofthead and Fauldhouse, a banking office, and Established, Free, and Roman Catholic churches. Pop. of Crofthead-Proper ami Fauldhouse, 3000.
CROFTHEAD, village, f mile south-west of Neilston, Renfrewshire. It had a cotton factory so early as 1792, and was the terminus of Glasgow and Neilston Railway till formation of the continued line thence to Kilmarnock. Pop. with Levernbank, 609.
CROFTHEAD, place, with cave, in Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfriesshire.
CROFTINLOAN, seat, between Pitlochrie and Moulinearn, Perthshire.
CROFTON, seat near Lanark.
CROFTS, estate in Carmylie parish, Forfarshire.
CROFTS, place, with interesting oval camp, in Crossmichael parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
CROGLIN, craggy precipitous hill in Tynron parish, Dumfriesshire.
CROGO, hamlet in Balmaclellan parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
CROICK, quoad sacra parish within Kincardine quoad civilia parish, Ross-shire. Its church stands in a sequestered vale, about 12 miles from Bonar-Bridge. The public school has about 20 scholars. Pop. 194.
CROKACH, lake, 2 miles north of Lochinver, Sutherland.
CROMALT, hills, 12 miles south of Assynt church, Sutherland.
CROMAR, section of Mar district, Aber-deenshirfl. It comprehends Coull, Tarland, Migvie, Logie-Coldstone, and part of Tulloch parishes, and has a Free church.
CROMARTY, town and parish in Cromartyshire, and firth partly also in Ross-shire. The town stands on fine bay, on south side of the firth, near the firth's mouth, 21 1/2 miles north-north-east of Inverness; is a seaport and a parliamentary burgh, uniting with Dingwall, Tain, Dornoch, Wick, and Kirkwall in sending a member to Parliament ; adjoins Cromarty Hill, the scene of a victory of Sir William Wallace, with magnificent view ; figures as the seat of the thaneship of Macbeth, and as the birth-place of Hugh Miller ; consists of close irregular streets ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Cromartyshire, 2 banking offices, 2 hotels, an obeliskal monument to Hugh Miller, 2 Established churches, a Free church, and a public school with about 200 scholars. Real property in 1880-81, 1905. Pop. 1352. The parish is 7 miles long, and from 1 to 4 miles broad. Real property in 1880-81, 5447. Pop. 2009. The coast on Moray Firth is abrupt, precipitous, and lofty, but on Cromarty Firth is low; and the interior, as seen from the north, presents a bold high outline, rising toward the lofty eastern coast and declining in long ridge toward the west. Cromarty House is a chief residence. 3 schools for 186 scholars were formerly in the parish, but gave place to 2 new ones for 370. The firth is the estuary of Conan river ; commences near Dingwall; goes curvingly north-eastward to Moray Firth ; measures about 20 miles in length, and mostly from 1J to 2J miles in breadth ; makes a north-ward expansion in its lower part to the extent of 6 miles by 4 ; and terminates in a narrow mouth between two bold promontories, called the Sutors of Cromarty.
