DESKIE, quondam chapelry in Inveraven parish, Bantfshire.
DESKRY, rivulet, running about 9 miles northward to the Don, at upper boundary of Towie parish, Aberdeenshire.
DESS, railway station and rivulet in Deeside, Aberdeenshire. The station is 3 miles east of Aboyne, and the rivulet issues from Auchlossen Loch, makes a fine waterfall called Slog of Dess, and enters the Dee in vicinity of the station.
DESSWOOD, seat near Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeenshire.
DEUCALEDONIAN SEA, the part of the Atlantic among and around the Hebrides.
DEUCHAR, seat in Fearn parish, Forfarshire.
DEUGH, rivulet,running tortuously about 15 miles to right side of the Ken, at 7J miles north-by-west of New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire.
DEVANA, site of Roman camp on the Dee in Peterculter parish, Aberdeenshire.
DEVAR, island in mouth of Campbelton Loch, Kintyre, Argyleshire. A lighthouse is on it, with revolving light visible at the distance of 17 nautical miles.
DEVERON, river of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire. It rises on uplands 4 miles south-west of Buck of Cabrach ; runs in various directions, but averagely north-eastward ; receives in its progress the Bogie, the Isla, and some lesser affluents ; has a total course of 35 miles in straight line, but at least 50 along its bed; is impetuous in its upper reaches, but slow in its middle and lower ones ; descends from Highland glens to traverse a diversity of fertile beautiful lowland tracts ; and enters the sea between Banff and Macduff.
DEVIL'S CALDRON, dark dismal cavern, with cascade into it from deep narrow chasm, in course of Lednock river, Perthshire.
DEVIL'S CALDRON, enclosed circular ancient structure, believed to have been a place of Romish penance, in vale of St. Blane, Isle of Bute.
DEVIL'S MILL, reverberating cataract of Devon river, within a fissure a little above Rumbling Bridge, about 4 miles east-north-east of Dollar, Clackmannanshire.
DEVIL'S STAIRCASE, difficult descending old road from a point near head of Glencoe to a point near head of Loch Leven, on north border of Argyleshire.
DEVOLS, rocky wooded glen, with brook making two cascades, in western vicinity of Port-Glasgow, Renfrewshire.
DEVON, river of Perthshire, Kinross-shire, and Clackmannanshire. It rises near the watershed of the Southern Ochils ; makes a great detour to the east ; has a total course along its bed of about 26 miles ; and enters the Forth at Cambus, 6J miles in straight line south-south-west of its source. Famous cataracts and falls are on it near Crook of Devon ; and the scenery over great part of its course ia highly picturesque, and has been celebrated by Burns.
DEVON, ironworks, and public school with about 148 scholars, in Clackmannan parish, Clackmannanshire. DEVON (BLACK or SOUTH), rivulet, running about 6 miles westward and south-westward to the Forth, at li mile below Alloa.
DEVONHILL, place on west side of Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire.
DEVONSHAW, seat about <2\ miles east-north-east of Dollar, Clackmannanshire.
DEVONSHAW, hill, with ancient circular camp, in Wandell parish, Lanarkshire.
DEVONSIDE, village in Tillicoultry parish, Clackmannanshire. Pop. 479.
DEVON VALLEY RAILWAY, railway from Tillicoultry station of Stirling and Dunfermline Railway into junction with the Fife and Kinross. It was opened on 1st May 1863, and became amalgamated with the North British in January 1875.
DEWAR, hamlet and lofty hiU in Heriot parish, Edinburghshire.
DEWARTON, village in Borthwick parish, Edinburghshire.
DEWS, quondam lake in Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire.
DHAIL, hamlet and headland, 5 miles south-west of Butt of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
DHIVACH.
DHU, lake, overhung by precipices more than 1000 feet high, in Glenmuick parish, Aberdeenshire. A rill drops into it from a height of about 200 feet ; and a brook, forming a series of small cascades, goes from it to Loch Muick.
DHU, lake in Wick parish, Caithness.
DHU, mountain in Luss parish, Dumbartonshire.
DHUISK, rivulet, running about 10 miles north-eastward to the Stinchar, in south of Carrick, Ayrshire.
DICHMOUNT, hill in St. Vigeans parish, Forfarshire. Its summit is crowned with a large cairn, and was anciently the seat of baronial courts.
DICHMOUNT, Lanarkshire.
DIFFICULTY, cape in south-west of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
DIGHTY, small river, running about 15 miles eastward to Firth of Tay, at 2 miles east of Broughty Ferry, Forfarshire.
DIGMORE, small harbour in North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
DIKEHEAD.
DILLICHIP, printworks in Bonhill parish, Dumbartonshire.
DILTY, morass in Carmylie and Guthrie parishes, Forfarshire.
DINARD, lake and rivulet in north-west of Sutherland. The lake lies among mountains on south verge of Durness parish, measures about 3 miles in circuit, and is overlooked by a cave which the Lords Reay used as a sporting-lodge ; and the rivulet issues from it, runs impetuously about 8 miles northward, is overhung midway by Benspionna, and enters the head of Kyle of Durness.
