DUNPHAIL.
DUNRAGIT, railway station, post office, and seat, 5 miles east-south-east of Stranraer, Wigtonshire.
DUNREGGAN, suburb of Minniehive, Dumfriesshire.
DUNROBIN, seat of the Duke of Sutherland, 2 miles north-east of Golspie, Sutherland. It stands on a ramparted sea terrace, 300 feet long ; includes a plain castellated structure of 1275 ; is mainly a freat rectangular pile of 1847, in mixedly 'rench, German, and old Scottish styles ; contains sumptuous apartments specially prepared for occupancy by the Queen ; and has very beautiful grounds, containing two Scandinavian dunes.
DUNROD, old barony in Innerkip parish, Renfrewshire. It belonged to Sir James Lindsay, the companion of Sir Robert Bruce ; and it is traversed by a burn of its own name, spanned by a very ancient bridge, supposed to be Roman.
DUNROSSNESS, parish in south of Shetland. It comprehends the old parishes of Dunrossness, Sandwick, and Coningsburgh ; comprises the southern extremity of Mainland, to the length of about 18 miles ; includes the Islands of Mousa, Cross, Colsay, St. Ninian, and Fair Isle ; and has a post office of its own name, with money order and telegraph departments, under Lerwick. Real property in 1880-81, 3728. Pop., quoad civilia, 4226; quoad sacra, 1818. The surface is mostly bleak and heathy, but comprises a considerable aggregate of land fairly productive of coarse barley and oats. The parochial church contains 858 sittings. Established churches are at Sandwick and Fair Isle ; Free churches at Dunrossness and Coningsburgh ; a Congregational church at Sandwick ; and Baptist and Wesleyan churches at Dunrossness. 8 schools for 602 scholars are in the parish, and 7 of them for 567 are new.
DUNROSTAN, rivulet in North Knapdale parish, Argyleshire.
DUNSAPPIE, lake on east shoulder of Arthur's Seat, adjacent to Edinburgh.
DUNSCORE, parish on west border of Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire. It has a post office of its own name under Dumfries, and contains the village of Cottack. Its length is 11 miles ; its greatest breadth 3 miles ; its area 14,815 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 13,675. Pop. 1405. The surface includes fertile alluvial lands adjacent to the Nith ; extends westward thence, across Gleneslin rivulet, to the upmost reach of the Urr ; and consists chiefly of three vales or glens with enclosing hills. Ellisland farmhouse, once occupied by the poet Burns, Lag Tower, the ruined seat of the Griersons, and Friar's Carse, with vestiges of ancient monastery, are in the east ; and Bogrie and Sundaywell Towers, famous in the history of the Cove-nanters, are in the west. The churches are Established,Free,and United Presbyterian. There are 3 schools for 302 scholars, and 1 of them and enlargements for 167 are new.
DUNSCRIBEN, vitrified fort on hill over-looking Loch Ness, in Urquhart parish, Inverness-shire.
DUNSCUDDEBURGH, Scandinavian fort in Kilmuir parish, Isle of Skye.
DUNSE, town and parish in Berwickshire. The town stands on a plain adjacent to Dunse Law, 7i miles north-north-east of Greenlaw ; took its name from an ancient town on the top of Dunse Law, figuring much in the Border wars, and destroyed in 16th century; was founded about 1588 as a successor to that town, and partly engirt for a long time by a deep morass ; ranks now as the political capital of Berwickshire conjointly with Greenlaw ; is a great centre of marketing business, and publishes a weekly newspaper ; comprises a fine market square and spacious streets ; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 3 banking offices, 2 hotels, County Buildings, a steepled Gothic town hall, a parochial church destroyed by fire in 1879, and restored at a cost of nearly 4000 in 1880-81, a Free church, 3 United Presbyterian churches, an Episcopalian church, a public school for 500 scholars, erected in 1880-81 at a cost of 5760, and a public library opened in 1875. Pop. 2437. The parish is 7^ miles long and 3 miles broad, and comprises ll,39(j acres. Real property in 1880-81, 27,099. Pop. 3353. The north-western section is part of the Lammermoors, and attains an extreme altitude of 1065 feet ; and the south-eastern section is part of the Merse, and mostly fertile and highly cultivated. Dunse Law measures about 2| miles round the base, rises to an altitude of 630 feet, has a tabular summit of about 30 acres, and was twice entrenched and occupied by the Covenanters' army under General Leslie. The seats are Dunse Castle, Manderston, Wedderburn, Wellfield, Cumledge, Cairnbank, and Berrywell ; and the chief antiquities are vestiges of the Covenanters' camp and the site of Edinshall. There were, prior to the formation of the school board, 9 schools for 600 scholars.
DUNSE, hill in Roxburgh parish, Roxburghshire.
DUNSHELT, village about a mile south-east of Auchtermuchty, Fife. It has a post office under Auchtermuchty. Pop. 41 4.
DUNSINNAN, hill and seat, 8 miles north-east of Perth. The hill is conical, flat-topped, and 1012 feet high ; commands a very fine view ; and was formerly crowned with a strong castle, said to have been built by Macbeth.
