ANTERMONY, hamlet and seat in Campsie parish, Stirlingshire.
ANTONINUS' WALL, quondam Roman rampart, from Carriden on Firth of Forth to a point near Old Kilpatrick on the Clyde. It was nearly 36| miles long. It comprised a wall 24 feet thick and 20 feet high, and a north-side fosse 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep. It had 3 forts at each end, and 15 forts at regular intermediate distances, and it has yielded many interesting relics, but has left very few and slight vestiges in situ.
ANWOTH, village and parish on south-west seaboard of Kirkcudbrightshire. The village stands on the Fleet opposite Gatehouse, and is suburban to that town. Pop. 337. The parish includes the peninsula between Fleet Bay and Wigton Bay, and is about 6i miles long. Acres, 11,774. Real property in 1880-81, 6797. Pop. 728. The coast is mostly flat, but partly rocky, and has 2 large caves. The interior is tumulated in the south and centre, and bold and barren in the north. The seats are Cardoness, Ardwall Kirkclauch, and Rusco. The present parochial church is modern, and contains 400 sittings. The previous church, a barn-like building, was served by the celebrated Samuel Rutherford, and is still standing. A granite obelisk to Ruther ford's memory was erected in 1842, destroyed by lightning in 1847, and rebuili in 1851, and makes a conspicuous figure on a neighbouring hill. A United Presbyterian church is in the village, but takes designation from Gatehouse. There are 3 schools for 235 scholars, and one of them, for 70, is new.
APP, stream of Glenapp, Ballantrae parish, Ayrshire. It runs south-westward ;o Loch Ryan.
APPIN, village and quoad sacra parish _n north of Argyleshire. The village stands on a bay of its own name on south-east side of Loch Linnhe, 12 miles north-north-east of Oban, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Fort-William. The parish was constituted in 1868 ; is part of an old parish of Appin, now united to Lismore ; measures about 18 miles by 12, and exhibits much diversity and picturesqueness of landscape. Pop. 762. Appin House, on the coast, is a fine mansion. ' A land that was famous of yore, the land of green Appin,' is sung in Hogg's ballad, entitled, 'The Stuarts of Appin.' The churches are Established and Free, and the public school has about 87 scholars.
APPIN, vale on left side of the Tay, near Aberfeldy, Perthshire.
APPIN, hill, with large cairn, in Tynron parish, Dumfriesshire.
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APPLEBY, lake in Glasserton parish, Wigtonshire.
APPLECROSS, hamlet, vale, and parish on south-west coast of Ross-shire. The hamlet lies on a bay of its own name, 14 miles north-by-west of Kyleakin ; has a post office under Dingwall, an Established church, a Free church, and a public school with about 83 scholars, and had anciently a Culdee cell, followed by a famous Romish church, now represented by a curiously-sculptured small obelisk. The vale lies around the hamlet, and is over-hung by lofty sandstone mountains with grand views. The parish includes Kishorn, Croulin, and Ba islands, and measures on the mainland about 20 miles by 20. Real property in 1880-81, 4415. Pop., quoad civilia, 2354; quoad sacra, 949. The surface, with small exception, is mountainous and bleak. There are 10 schools for 476 scholars, and 8 of them, for 383, are new.
APPLEGARTH,parish, containing Nethercleugh and Dinwoodie railway stations, in centre of Annandale, Dumfriesshire. Post town, Lockerby. Length, about 6 miles ; greatest breadth, about 5 miles ; area, 11,869 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 11,979. Pop. 969. The river Annan traces all the western boundary, and the Dryfe traverses the interior. More than half of the land is low plain, and the rest is hilly. Jardine Hall, the seat of Sir Alexander Jardine, Bart., is a chief feature ; and Balgray and Hook are other mansions. There are 2 public schools, with about 105 scholars.
APPLETREE HALL, village in Wilton parish, Roxburghshire.
ARASAIG, village and district on south-west coast of Inverness-shire. The village stands on north side of LochnaGaul, near the sea, about 30 miles south of Kyleakin ; is regularly called at by steamers, and has a post office, with money order department, under Fort-William, a large inn, an Established mission church, a Free church preaching-station, a Roman Catholic church with 600 sittings, and a Roman Catholic school. The district is bounded on the north by Loch Morar, on the south by Loch Aylort, and is mostly mountainous and sterile.
