ANDREWS (ST.), parish on east side of Pomona, Orkney. It extends from the eastern boundary of Kirkwall parish to the sea, includes the islands of Copinshay and Kirkholm, and has an area of about 13 square miles. Post town, Kirkwall. Keal property in 1880-81, 2063. Pop. 1695. The land is mostly flat, but has diversities of surface, and rises nowhere higher than about 350 feet. The coast includes both sandy beach and precipitous rock, and has a large sea cavern. The churches are Established and Free. St. Andrews and Deerness parishes are in some respects united, and they have 3 new public schools for 290 scholars.
ANDREWS-LHANBRYDE (ST.), village and parish in Elginshire. The village stands 4 miles south-east of Elgin, and has a post office, of the name of Lhanbryde, under Elgin. Pop. 294. The parish contains also a small suburb of Elgin. Acres, 9197. Real property in 1880-81, 7894. Pop. 1396. The land is a plain diversified with small hills, and has mostly a sandy but fertile soil. There are 3 schools for 258 scholars.
ANDUNTY, lake in Petty parish, Inverness-shire.
ANGELS HILL, eminence, with small cairn and small stone circle, in lona Island, Argyleshire.
ANGUS, Forfarshire.
ANKERVILLE, village in Nigg parish, Ross-shire.
ANNAN, river, town, and parish in Annandale, Dumfriesshire. The river rises among the Hartfell Mountains, runs about 30 miles southward to the upper part of the Solway Firth ; receives Evan, Moffat, Kinnel, Dryfe, Milk, and Mein waters, and is notable for both the kinds and the qualities of its fish. The town stands on the river about a mile from the Solway, and on the Glasgow and South-Western and the Solway Junction Railways, 15J miles south-east of Dumfries; ranks as a royal and parliamentary burgh, covers ground which may have been occupied by a Roman station, was an important post of the Romanized Britons and of their successors till the time of William the Lion, made a great figure in the wars of the Succession and in the Border forays, had a grand strong castle of Robert Bruce and military defences of wall and fosse ; is now a well-built town of modern aspect, has a head post office with all departments, 2 railway stations, 3 banking offices, a chief hotel, a fine town hall of 1878, a new water supply of 1881, a steepled Established church, Free and United Presbyterian churches, Congregational, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic chapels, 2 large public schools, and a mechanics' institute ; and unites with Dumfries, Lochmaben, Sanquhar, and Kirkcudbright in sending a member to Parliament. Real property in 1880-81, exclusive of railways, 10,805. Pop. of parliamentary burgh, 3368. The parish contains also the village of Annan-Waterfoot, and part of the village of Bridekirk, and is 8 miles long. Acres, 10,915. Real property of landward part in 1880-81, 15,801. Pop., quoad civilia, 5516 ; quoad sacra, 4936. The coast is flat and tame, but the interior is diversified by swells, 3 low parallel ridges, and 3 small hills. The seats are Mount Annan, Warmanbie, and Northfield. The town Sublic schools are the quondam aca-emy and 2 parochial, with about 140 and 29 scholars ; and the landward schools are 2, with accommodation for 302 scholars.
ANNANDALE, basin of river Annan. It begins with a mountain glen about 5 miles long, forms then the vast hollow of the Deil's Beef-Tub, and is thence to the firth a beautiful, fertile, hill-screened valley, called the How of Annandale, partly from 15 to 18 miles wide. It contained strong posts of the Romans ; be-came the property and lordship of the royal Bruces, passed to the Earl of Moray, the Earls of Dunbar, and the Earls of Douglas, and gave the title of earl from 1643, and of marquis from 1701 till 1792, to the Johnstones.
ANNAN-WATERFOOT, port of Annan town, at mouth of Annan river.
ANNAT, place, with public school, in Kilchrenan parish, Argyleshire.
ANNAT, small affluent of the Teith, near Doune, Perthshire. It has numerous
ANNBANK, town, 5 miles east-by-north of Ayr. It has a post office, with money order department, under Kilmarnock, a railway station, and an Established church. Pop. 1309.
ANNICK, river, running about 14 miles south-westward to the Irvine, near Irvine town, Ayrshire.
ANNICK LODGE, place, with public school, in Irvine parish, Ayrshire.
ANNIESLAND, village in Renfrew parish, Renfrewshire. Pop. 440.
ANNISTON, seat in Inverkeilor parish, Forfarshire.
ANN'S BRIDGE (ST.), picturesque locality on Kinnel river, 13 miles north-north-east of Dumfries.
ANOGH, place near head of Glenmoris-ton, Inverness-shire.
ANSTRUTHER, seaport town and 2 parishes on south-east coast of Fife. The town stands at terminus of the East of Fife Railway, 23 miles east-north-east of Kirkcaldy ; comprises the royal burgh of Anstruther-Wester, the royal burgh of Anstruther-Easter, and the suburb of Oellardyke, or main part of the royal burgh of Kilrenny ; forms one continuous town, with slender breadth, along the coast ; has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, 3 banking offices, a town hall of 1872, elaborate harbour works begun in 1866, and costing upwards of 60,000 till 1874, a notable and very ancient Established church, another Established church, Free, United Presbyterian, Evangelical Union, and Baptist churches, a public school with about 340 scholars, and 3 other public schools; figures notably in Dr. Tennant's Anster Fair, and was the birth-place of Maggie Lauder and the Rev. Dr. Chalmers. A railway to St. Andrews was begun to be formed in 1881. The burghs unite with 4 other Fife burghs in sending a member to Parliament. Pop. of Anstruther-Wester, 594 ; of An-struther-Easter, 1349 ; of Kilrenny, 2769. The parishes are Anstruther-Wester and Anstruther-Easter. Acres, 911 and 25. Real property in 1880-81 of landward part of Anstruther-Wester, 1664. Pop. of all Anstruther-Wester, 683.
