DOWALTON, fine lake, with island, 2 miles west of Garlieston, Wigtonshire.

DOWALTY, hill-ridge in Banchory-Ternan parish, Kincardineshire.

DOWANHILL, handsome new suburb immediately west of Hillhead, Glasgow. It contains the city observatory, and a United Presbyterian church.

DOWANVALE, suburb of Partick, Glasgow. It has a Free church, erected in 1880-81, and fronting Dowanhill.

DOWGLEN, burn in Westerkirk parish, Dumfriesshire.

DOWIE DENS, quondam moor, now en-closed and cultivated, near Yarrow church, Selkirkshire. It was the scene of some dismal event commemorated in a famous ancient ballad, and it formerly had upwards of 20 large cairns, but has now no other antiquity than two large unhewn stones.

DOWN, hill in Dunbar parish, Haddingtonshire.

DOWN, conical verdant hill in Fossaway parish, Perthshire.

DOWN, curious hillock, with vertical rocky front, in Fintry parish, Stirlingshire.

DOWNAN, place, with old burying-ground, in Inveraven parish, Banffshixe.

DOWNFIELD, village in Mains parish, Forfarshire. It has a post office, with money order department, under Dundee, and a public school with about 75 scholars. Pop. 349.

DOWNFIELD, hill, with ruined ancient fortification, in Kettle parish, Fife.

DOWNIE, hill-ridge in MoniMe parish, Forfarshire.

DOWNIE, bold headland at south side of Stonehaven Bay, Kincardineshire.

DOWNIE PARK, seat inTannadice parish, Forfarshire.

DOWNIES, fishing village, 6 miles north-west of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire.

DRAFFAN, quondam castle, supposed to have been Danish, in Dunino parish, Fife.

DRAFFAN, place in Lesmahagow parish, Lanarkshire. It has a public school with about 112 scholars.

DRAGON-HOLE, cave on face of Kinnoul Hill, near Perth.

DRAINIE, parish containing Lossiemouth town, Branderburgh and Seatown suburbs, and Stotfield village, on coast of Elginshire. Its length is about 4 miles ; its breadth about 2 miles ; its area 6949 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 12,100. Pop. 3991. Part of the coast is flat and low, and part is bold and rocky. A foreshore about a mile broad is at the low part ; and a reef with skerry, at about a mile's distance, lies parallel to the bold part. The interior, except at the bold part of the coast, is low and nearly level. Caves are on the coast, and the site of the strong ancient castle of Kinnedder adjoins the churchyard. The parochial church stands in a central position, and contains 700 sittings ; and Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches are at Lossiemouth. 4 schools for 731 scholars are in the parish, and 2 of them for 485 are new.

DRAKEMUIR, village in Dairy parish, Ayrshire. Pop. 325.

DREAMBEG, place on the coast, near mouth of Kyle-Skou,in west of Sutherland.

DREEL, burn entering Firth of Forth at Anstruther, Fife.

DREGHORN, village and parish in Cunningham district, Ayrshire. The village stands 2 miles east of Irvine, commands a fine view, and has a post office with money order department, designated of Ayrshire, a railway station, a parochial church, an Evangelical Union chapel, and a public school with about 378 scholars. Pop. 928. The parish contains also Overton and Perceton villages, and most of Bankhead town. Its length is about 8 miles ; its breadth from mile to 2 miles ; its area 5626 acres. Real property in 1879-80, 25,858. Pop. 3949. The land at the south-west end, only a mile from the coast, is a low dead flat ; it rises thence, in gentle undulations, toward the east and north-east ; and it is nearly all arable and luxuriant. Coal is extensively worked, and ironstone, limestone, and sandstone are found. Seats are Annock Lodge, Perceton, Warwickhill, and Cunninghamhead. A Free church, erected in 1877, is at Perceton. 4 schools for 830 scholars are in the parish, and 2 of them and an enlargement for 540 are new.

DREGHORN, seat in Colinton parish, Edinburghshire.

DREINICH, small island near Lismore, in Loch Linnhe, Argyleshire.

DREM, village, adjacent to railway junction, 17^ miles east of Edinburgh. It has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, a railway station, and remains of a Knights Templars' establishment, and is near vestiges of a fortified ancient Caledonian town.

DRHUIM, narrow, wooded, picturesque reach of the Beauly's vale, 2^ miles long, with a series of cascades, in Kilmorack parish, Inverness-shire.

DRIMACHTOR, ancient forest in Laggan parish, Inverness-shire.

DRIMADOWN, bay on south-west coast of Arran Island, Buteshire.

DRIMCUDDEN, estate in Resolis parish, Ross-shire.

DRIMDRISSAIG, seat in South Knapdale parish, Argyleshire.