DUNNOTTAR, parish containing Crawton fishing village and part of Stonehaven post town, on coast of Kincardineshire. Its length is 5J miles ; its greatest breadth 3i miles: its area 7783 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 12,869. Pop. 2498. The coast has a length of 3J miles, is mostly very bold and rocky, and abounds in deep caves, much frequented by sea-fowl. The interior is mostly uneven, with numerous rising-grounds and hillocks ; but includes, on its north border, a part of the How of Mearns. The chief seat is Dunnottar House ; and the chief antiquity, a great and famous one, is Dunnottar Castle. This crowns an insulated salient rock, rising from the sea in cliffs 160 feet high ; was erected and occupied by the Keiths, Earls Marischal ; made a great figure in the long course of the wars of the Succession ; became the hiding-place of the Scottish Regalia in the time of Cromwell, and a State prison in the times of Charles II. and James VII. ; is notable for the ' Whigs' Vault,' where many of the Covenanters were immured and tortured ; was dismantled after the attainder of the last Earl Marischal in 1715 ; and presents now the appearance of a very striking ruin with embattled walls and stately towers. The parochial church stands about 1 mile north-west of the castle ; and its churchyard contains a monument to the Covenanters who died in the ' Whigs' Vault,' and was the place where Sir Walter Scott met the person whom he calls ' Old Mortality.' Free, United Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches are in Stonehaven. 3 public schools for 321 scholars are in the parish, and 1 of them for 105 is new.

DUNOLLY, ruined ancient castle and fine modern mansion, near Oban, Argyleshire. The castle stands on a bold, rocky S r omontory at northern extremity of ban bay ; dates from 12th century, but may have been preceded by a Scandinavian fortalice ; was the chief seat of the Mac-dougals, lords of Lorn ; and is now represented by only its keep and some ivy-clad fragments of other buildings.

DUNOON, town and parish in Cowal district, Argyleshire. The town stands on Firth of Clyde, 8 miles by water west of Greenock ; grew around an ancient castle on crown of small promontory; became a residence of the Bishops of Argyle, and a great ferry thoroughfare ; prospered, nevertheless, only so far as to be a village, and sank afterwards to the condition of a hamlet ; expanded from about 1822 till the present time into the bulk and celebrity of the largest and most favoured watering-place on the Clyde ; and made a claim, in 1873, to be constituted the political capital of Argyleshire. The castle is thought to have been developed from a Dalriadan fortalice ; was captured by Edward Baliol, held by Edward III. of England, and recaptured by the Steward who became Robert in.; under-went reconstruction, in three-towered form and with palatial grandeur, about beginning of 15th century ; ranked there-after as a royal palace in charge of the noble family of Argyle ; was visited by Queen Mary ; became the scene, in 17th century, of a horrible massacre ; was then relinquished to decay; and subsided eventually into merely a sub-basement. The town, in one sense, is a compact assemblage of regular streets adjacent to the castle promontory ; in another sense, is an array of single streets, rows of villas, and groups of various sorts of buildings, including Kirn and other suburbs, and extending about 4J miles from Holy Loch to Bawtry Bay ; in either sense, occupies a strip of low ground, backed by braes ascending rapidly to mountain height, and presents a picturesque appearance. It has a head post office, with money order and telegraph departments, 2 banking offices, 4 hotels, a town hall of 1874, convalescent homes, steamboat piers near the castle site and at Kirn, 2 Established churches, 2 Free churches, 2 United Presbyterian churches, 2 Episcopalian churches, Baptist and Roman Catholic chapels, 3 public schools, and several local institutions. The parochial church is a prominent Gothic edifice of 1816 ; one of the Free churches was erected in 1877 ; and one of the United Presbyterian churches in 1875. Pop. of the town, 4687. The parish contains also the villages of Inellan, Sandbank, Arclenadam, Kilmun, Strone, Blairmore, and Arclentinny. Its length is about 18 miles; its greatest breadth 9 miles ; its area 44,595 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 78,550. Pop., quoad civilia, 7974 ; quoad sacra, 5349. The coast is bisected, to the extent of about 2 miles, by Holy Loch ; measures, inclusive of curvatures, at least 30 miles ; has a low and mostly narrow seaboard, with great aggregate of artificial ornature, and occupied to the amount of at least 6 miles by town and villages ; and is over-hung, immediately behin'd the seaboard, by bold hills or mountains. The interior comprises 5 groups or ranges of hill or mountain, and 5 intersecting vales or glens; and it exhibits, in both its uplands and its low grounds, a rich diversity of natural feature. The chief seats are Toward Castle, Hafton House, Glenfinart House, and Benmore House ; and the chief antiquities are the sub-basement of Dunoon Castle, the ruin of old Toward Castle, and the tower of Kilmun collegiate church. Established churches are at Toward, Inellan, Sandbank, Kilmun, Strone, and Ardentinny ; Free churches are at Inellan, Sandbank, and Kilmun ; and a United Presbyterian church is at Inellan. Sixteen schools for 1565 scholars are in the parish, and 5 of them for 580 are new.