DULLATUR, bog, traversed by Forth and Clyde Canal, 2 miles east of Kilsyth, Stirlingshire. Many relics of the battle of Kilsyth in 1645 were found in it at the forming of the canal.
DULLEN, rivulet in Mortlach parish, Banffshire.
DULNAIN, river, running about 25 miles north-eastward to the Spey, at 2J miles above Grantown, in Elginshire.
DULNAIN BRIDGE, hamlet on the Dulnain, in Duthil parish, Inverness-shire. It has a post office under Grantown.
DULSIE BRIDGE, romantic bridge on Findhorn river, in Ardclach parish, Nairnshire.
DUMBARNIE.
DUMBARTON, town, castle, and parish in Dumbartonshire. The town stands on low flat ground, bisected by the river Leven, f mile from the Clyde, and 15 J miles north-west-by-west of Glasgow ; covers the site of the Roman naval station Theodosia, and the site of a Culdee cell ; shared in the history of Dumbarton Castle as the royal seat of the kingdom of Cumbria or Strathclyde ; is now a seaport, a royal and parliamentary burgh, and the political capital of Dumbartonshire ; unites with Port-Glasgow, Renfrew, Rutherglen, and Kilmarnock in sending a member to Parliament ; comprises a main body on the left bank of the Leven, and two suburbs, old and new, on the right bank ; was designed in 1876 to undergo extensive im-Srovements in its streets and harbour, and i 1881 to acquire an eastern suburb with house accommodation for about 2000 families ; was long distinguished for glass manufacture, and is much more distinguished now for shipbuilding; publishes 2 weekly newspapers ; and has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, a railway station, 3 banking offices, 2 hotels, a fine town hall of 1865, a long costly pier of 1874-75, a steepled Established church of 1810, a handsome Free church of 1878, another Free church, 2 United Presbyterian churches, an elegant Episcopalian church of 1873, Evangelical Union, Baptist, "Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic churches, a Mechanics' Institute, and 7 public schools with accommodation for 1961 scholars. Real property in 1880-81, 43,842. Pop. 13,786. The castle stands at left side of the Leven's influx to the Clyde ; is an isolated, precipitous, bi forked rock, about a mile in girth at the base, and 260 feet high, partially edificed with ramparts and houses ; was a stronghold probably of the Romans, and certainly of the Romanized Strathclyde Caledonians ; has been a royal fort from commencement of the Scoto-Saxon monarchy till the present time ; figured much and often in national affairs till final fall of Queen Mary ; was bereft of most of its military value by the invention of modern artillery ; and, but for a stipulation at the national union for its being permanently maintained, might have long ago been entirely relinquished as a fort. The parish excludes the town's suburbs, measures about 7J by 3 miles, and comprises 8291 acres. Real property of landward part in 1880-81, 38,820. Pop. 10,898. The land for some distance from the town and castle is low and flat, but about the middle rises steeply into the Lennox Hills, and in the farther end is bleakly moorish. No school is in the landward part, and 1 of the schools in the town for 350 scholars is new.
DUMBARTONSHIRE, county, partly maritime but principally inland, in west of Scotland. It comprises a main body and a detached district ; and it is high-land in the one end, lowland in the other end, and a rich mixture of the two in the centre. The main body begins around the head of Loch Lomond ; includes that lake's west side and foot, and all the country thence to Loch Long, the Clyde, and the Endrick ; goes eastward on the Clyde and among the Lennox Hills to Kelvin river, at a point 3J miles north-west of Glasgow ; and is 35 miles long, and from 2 to 15 miles broad. The detached district commences at 3| miles east of nearest part of the main body ; extends east-by-northward along the strath of Forth and Clyde Canal ; was annexed to the county in the time of Robert I. ; and is 13 miles long, and from If mile to 4 miles broad. The entire area is 270 square miles. The surface ranges from grandly mountainous westward of Loch Lomond, to tamely flat along the Forth and Clyde Canal. The rocks range from the metamorphic to the carboniferous, and include roofing-slate and abundance of coal, lime-stone, and building stone. The maritime waters are Loch Long and the Firth of Clyde on the boundary, and Gareloch in the interior. The fresh-water lakes, apart from Loch Lomond, are all small, but an interesting one of them is Loch Sloy. The chief rivers are the Endrick, the Clyde, and the Kelvin on the boundaries ; and the Leven and the Allander in the interior ; but many of the smaller streams, especially those among the mountains, possess much scenic character. Agriculture is advanced and skilful ; and manufacturing industry, particularly on the Leven, is prominent. The towns with each more than 4000 inhabitants are Dumbarton, Kirkintilloch, Helensburgh, and Alexandria ; with each more than 2000 are Kenton and Bonhill ; with each more than 1000 are Duntocher, Cumbernauld, and Jamestown ; and the villages with each more than 300 are Old Kilpatrick, Bowling, Garscube, Knightswood, Garscadden, Condorrat, Faifley, Row, Smithstown-Row, Waterside, Kilcreggan, Garelochhead, Milton, Dalmuir, Cardross, Balloch, and parts of Yoker and Lenzie. The ancient county bore the name of Lennox, but included tracts now in Stirlingshire, Perthshire, and Renfrewshire; and it abounded in conflicts between the Caledonians and the Romans, the Scots and the Picts, the Cumbrians and the Saxons, the Highland clans among them-selves, the Caterans and the Lowlanders, and parties against parties in the Scottish civil wars. The chief antiquities within the modern county are vestiges of Antoninus' Wall, Roman remains at Duntocher and Cumbernauld, and rude forts, tumuli, and ruined old castles in many places. The value of real property in 1880-81, exclusive of railways and canals, was 336,745. Pop. in 1871, 58,857 ; in 1881, 78,327.
