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DOUGLAS, burn, running about 6 miles south-eastward to the Yarrow, at 2 miles from foot of St. Mary's Loch, Selkirkshire.

DOUGLAS, burn, running about 7 miles eastward to Loch Fyne, at 3 miles south of Inverary, Argyleshire.

DOUGLAS, burn, running about 5 miles cast-south-eastward to Loch Lomond, at Lower Inveruglas, Dumbartonshire.

DOUGLAS, estate in Glammis parish, Forfarshire.

DOUGLASDALE, variously Douglas parish, the basin of Douglas river, and all middle ward of Lanarkshire.

DOUGLAS MILL, place, 2 miles north-east of Douglas town, Lanarkshire.

DOUGLAS MOOR, large section of Crawford parish, Lanarkshire.

DOUGLAS PARK, seat in Bothwell parish, Lanarkshire.

DOUGLASTOWN, village, 3J miles south-west of Forfar. It has a post office under Forfar.

DOULAS, lake in Lairg parish, Sutherland.

DOULOCH, lacustrine expansion of Shira rivulet, to within J mile of Loch Fyne, in Inverary parish, Argyleshire. Vestiges of an old castle are on its bank.

DOUN, mountain, 2409 feet high, 5 miles north-north-east of Garelochhead, Dumbartonshire.

DOUNBY, place, with post office under Finstown, in Pomona, Orkney.

DOUNE, town at confluence of the Teith and the Ardoch, 3 miles west of Dunblane, Perthshire. It comprises 3 good streets and a suburb ; is a place of considerable resort in summer ; has a post office with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Perthshire, a railway station, 2 banking offices, 2 hotels, a famous ancient ruined castle, a remarkable old bridge, a Gothic towered Established church, Free and United Presbyterian churches, an Episcopalian church of 1877, and 3 public schools with about 278 scholars ; and gives the title of baron to the Earl of Moray. Its castle was long the seat of the Earls of Menteith ; became a residence of two regents of Scotland, a resort of the dowager queen of James v., and a resort of Queen Mary ; was held in 1745 by the forces of Prince Charles Edward; figures in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley and Lady of the Lake; and is now a roofless, massive, quadrangular pile, with huge corner tower. Pop. of the town, 996. Doune Lodge, about a mile to the north-west, is a seat of the Earl of Moray.

DOUNE, place, with public school, in Kincardine parish, Eoss-shire.

DOUNE, hill, with vitrified fort, in Criech parish, Sutherland.

DOUNE, hill in Ardclach parish, Nairnshire.

DOUNE, conical mound, formerly fortified, in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire.

DOUNE, conical hill, formerly fortified, in Edenkillie parish, Elginshire.

DOUNE, seat in Eothiemurchus quoad sacra parish, Inverness-shire.

DOUNE, Dumbartonshire.

DOUR, burn in Aberdour parish, Aberdeenshire.

DOURA, collier village in Kilwinning parish, Ayrshire. Pop. 222.

DOURY, burn in Marykirk parish, Kincardineshire.

DOVE, coast cave in Fordyce parish, Banffshire.

DOVECOTAMINS, highest ground in Coldstream parish, Berwickshire.

DOVECOTHALL, suburb of Barrhead, Eenfrewshire.

DOVECOTLAND, village, suburban to Perth.

DOVECOTWOOD, fragment of very strong old castle in Kilsyth parish, Stirlingshire.

DOVERAN.

DOVESLAND, section or suburb of Paisley, Eenfrewshire.

DOWAL, lacustrine expansion of river Carron, with 3 islets, in Lochcarron parish, Eoss-shire.

DOWALLY, village and parish in Strathtay district, Perthshire. The village stands on a burn of its own name, 4^ miles north-by-west of Dunkeld, dates from the Culdee times, and has a small parochial church of 1818, and a public school with about 63 scholars. The parish was a chapelry of Caputh, became separate in 1500, and is now united to Dunkeld ; and it comprises a main body of 6 miles along the Tay, and a detached district of about mile along the Tummel. Acres of Dowally and Dunkeld, 9456. Heal property in 1880-81, 3350. Pop. 791. The main body consists of a belt of low ground contiguous to the Tay, and a wooded range of over-hanging heights ; and includes the picturesque rocky hills of Craigiebarns and Craigievinean, together with the Kings pass


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