DALGARVEN, village on Garnock river, in Kilwinning parish, Ayrshire.
DALGETTY, parish, containing the villages of St. David's and Fordel Square, and part of the post town of Crossgates, on south-west coast of Fife. Its length north-ward is fully 5 miles ; its greatest breadth about 1J mile ; its area 3340 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 7602. Pop. 1321. The coast lies immediately east of Inverkeithing Bay, and presents a beautiful appearance. The interior ascends gradually to the north, and attains a maximum altitude of about 436 feet. Coal is extensively mined and exported. The seats are Donibristle, Fordel, and Cockairney. The parochial church is a handsome modern edifice, with about 500 sittings ; and a quoad sacra parish church is at Mossgreen. There are 2 public schools for 336 scholars, and 1 of them and a class-room for 250 are new.
DALGINCH, quondam castle, said to have belonged to Macduff, on site of Barnslee House, near Markinch, Fife.
DALGINROSS, suburb of Comrie, Perthshire.
DALGUISE, village on the Tay, 4 miles north-north-west of Dunkeld, Perthshire. It has a post office under Dunkeld, a rail-way station, and a Free church, and is near a long handsome railway viaduct across the Tay. Dalguise House, in its vicinity, is partly ancient, partly modern, and was long the residence of Fox Maule, who became Earl of Dalhousie.
DALHALAVAIG, place, with public school, in Reay parish, Caithness.
DALHARROLD, place, with ancient standing-stone, in Strathnaver, Sutherland.
DALHOUSIE, railway station and noble mansion in Cockpen parish, Edinburghshire. The station is 9 miles south-east of Edinburgh. The mansion, Dalhousie Castle, a seat of the Earl of Dalhousie, stands on the South Esk, about a mile south of the station, was originally a strong fortalice of the 12th century, and presents now an elegant modern appearance.
DALIBURGH, place in south-west of South Uist Island, Outer Hebrides. It has a post office under Lochmaddy.
DALINTOBER, suburb of Campbelton, Argyleshire.
DALJARROCH, hamlet and seat on Stinchar river, Carrick, Ayrshire. The hamlet lies 4 miles north-east of Colmonell, and has a post office designated of Ayrshire.
DALKEITH, town, ducal mansion, and parish, in east of Edinburghshire. The town stands on a gently swelling peninsula between the North Esk and the South Esk, 6 miles by road, but 8 by railway, south-east of Edinburgh ; has been a market town from unrecorded ancient times ; comprises a main street about two-thirds of a mile long, partly very spacious, extending parallel to the rivers ; includes a handsome new suburb adjacent to Eskbank railway station; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station at terminus of short branch railway to its centre, 4 banking offices, 5 hotels, a covered corn market of 1855, an elegant Foresters' hall of 1877, the nave and ruined choir of a church of 1384, a conspicuous steepled church of 1844, a Free church, 3 United Presbyterian churches, Congregational, Evangelical Union, and "Wesleyan chapels, Episcopalian and Roman Catholic churches, and 4 public schools with aggregately about 785 scholars. Pop. 6931. The ducal mansion, Dalkeith Palace, is the chief seat of the Duke of Buccleuch ; has a grandly wooded park of more than 1000 acres, ex-tending along the Esks from lower end of the town ; occupies the site of an ancient castle, captured by the English in the time of Edward III. ; stands on a steep rock adjacent to the North Esk, in upper part of the park ; was built about commencement of last century, and visited by George iv. and Queen Victoria ; and is a large Grecian structure, with recessed centre and projecting wings. The parish contains also the village of Lugton and greater part of Whitehill. Its length is 3| miles; its greatest breadth less than 2 miles ; its area 2344 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 36,889. Pop. , quoad civilia, 7707 ; quoad sacra, 3973. The surface, except in dells along the Esks, is mostly a plain, rising gently to the south-east; and, excepting edificed parts, thoroughfares, and the ducal park, is all disposed in fields and gardens. The rocks are carboniferous, and include rich seams of coal and limestone.
DALKEITH (WEST), quoad sacra parish, with church in Dalkeith town, Edinburghshire. Pop. 3734.
DALKS, hill on border of Coldingham Moor, Berwickshire.
DALL, seat on south side of Loch Rannoch, Perthshire.
DALLACHY, divided estate in Bellie parish, Elginshire.
DALLAS, village and parish in centre of Elginshire. The village stands 9 miles south-east of Forres, and has a post office under Forres. Pop. 212. The parish com-prises a main body and a detached district, measures about 12 miles by 9, and com-prises 22,903 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 5543. Pop. 915. The river Lossie, issuing from a small lake at south-western extremity, cuts the parish length-wise into nearly equal parts, and receives several burns in its progress. The land consists of a strath on that river, some vales on the burns, and a number of flanking or bordering hills. Dallas Lodge is a chief residence ; and the ruin of Tor Castle is a chief antiquity. The churches are Established and Free. There are 2 schools for 190 scholars, and 1 of them for 100 is new.
DALLAVAIRD, place, with blue slate quarry, in Glenbervie parish, Kincardine-
