DAVISTON, burn in Cadder parish, Lanarkshire.
DAVO, picturesque ravine in Garvock parish, Kincardineshire.
DAWAN, lake on border of Logie-Coldstone parish, Aberdeenshire.
DA WICK, mansion and old parish in Peeblesshire. The mansion stands on the Tweed, about 7 miles south-west of Peebles, and is the seat of Sir James Nasmyth, Bart. The parish was suppressed in 1742, and divided between Drummelzier and Stobo.
DEAD, affluent of the Lyne, in Newlaiids parish, Peeblesshire.
DEAD, vast bog in north-east of Castleton parish, Roxburghshire.
DEADMANGILL, notable cairn in Mouswald parish, Dumfriesshire.
DEAL (LEAS OF), hill, 820 feet high, at head of Deals voe, Shetland.
DEALS, voe or bay in Tingwall parish, Shetland.
DEAN,eachofnumerousstream-traversed ravines or deep narrow vales in many parts of Scotland. The name occurs both alone and as a prefix, and it is usually written ' dean ' in places south of the Forth, and ' den ' in places to the north. Many a dean or den is a cul-de-sac, escarped or copse-clad on the sides.
DEAN, suburb and quoad sacra parish on left side of Water of Leith, above Stockbridge, Edinburgh. The suburb was originally a rural village dating from the time of David I. ; retains a few old houses intermixed with modern ones ; adjoins on one side an elegant modern suburb on tabular ground, and descends on another nearly into junction with a dingy old village in bottom of Water of Leith ravine ; and contains or adjoins an Established church of 1856, a Free church, Trinity Episcopalian church, a bridge of 1832, and a cemetery formed in 1845. The bridge spans the Water of Leith ravine, has 4 arches, each 96 feet in span, and measures 447 feet in length, 39 feet in width, and 106 feet in height. The cemetery was greatly extended and partly re-embellished in 1872, and it contains the graves of many of Edinburgh's most distinguished public men. The quoad sacra parish is part of St. Cuthberfs. Pop. 5039.
DEAN, river, running about 10 miles west-south-westward from Forfar loch to the Isla, at boundary with Perthshire.
DEAN, burn, running to the Forth, in Borrowstownness parish, Linlithgowshire.
DEAN, village in Wilton parish, Roxburghshire.
DEAN, ruined castellated mansion about a mile north-east of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. It belonged to the Earls of Kilmarnock, the last of whom suffered death for participation in the rebellion of 1745 ; but it was destroyed by fire in 1735.
DEANBURNHAUGH, village in Roberton parish, Roxburghshire. It has a post office under Hawick.
DEANPARK, quoad sacra parish in south-western suburbs of Glasgow. Pop. 2048.
DEANS, village in Cambuslang parish, Lanarkshire.
DEANSTON, village on river Teith, about a mile west of Doune, Perthshire. It presents a pleasant appearance ; is noted in connection with Mr. James Smith, the famous mechanician and agricultural im-prover, who died in 1850 ; and has a post office under Stirling, extensive cotton mills, and a public school with about 292 scholars. Pop. 679. Deanston mansion is in its vicinity.
DEAOTHACK, affluent of the Glass, Inverness-shire.
DEAS, headland at southern extremity of Kintyre, Argyleshire.
DECHMONT, hill, with fine view, 2| miles south-west of Cambuslang, Lanarkshire. It once had many ancient cairns, and is the subject of a poem by John Struthers.
DECHMONT, village and hill in Livingstone parish, Linlithgowshire. Pop. 214.
DEE, river rising among Cairngorm Mountains, and running east-by-northward to the sea at Aberdeen. Its length of course, in direct line, is 64 miles ; along its bed, at least 96 miles. It makes a stupendous aggregate descent to the foot of the Cairngorms ; forms, about 6 miles above Castleton, a series of falls, called the Linn of Dee ; and runs so slowly from Castleton to the sea, as nowhere to afford water-power for a mill. Its affluents are very numerous, but are mostly torrents or burns.
DEE, river of Kirkcudbrightshire. It is formed by conflux of the Ken and the Black Dee; goes prevailingly southward to Solway Firth at mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay ; expands over the first 5 miles into a series of narrow lakes ; makes a total run of about 20 miles ; and is navigable for about 7 miles from the Solway.
DEE, lake, about If mile long, in Minnigaff parish, Kirkcudbrightshire ; also the series of narrow lakes in Kirkcudbrightshire Dee.
DEE (BLACK), river, running 18 miles chiefly south-eastward to confluence with the Ken, in Kirkcudbrightshire. It receives, in its upper parts, a small affluent from the Minnigaff Loch Dee.
