DURAN, hill, 5 miles south-east of Thurso, Caithness.

DURHAMTOWN, village in Bathgate parish, Linlithgowshire. Pop. 166.

DURIE, seat near Leven, Fife.

DURIN, place, with good inn, on north coast of Durness parish, Sutherland.

DURINISH.

DURISDEER.

DURN, burn, running to the sea at Portsoy, and hill, with quartz quarry and remains of ancient camp, in Fordyce parish, Banffshire.

DURNESS, parish in north-western extremity of Sutherland. It has a post office of its own name, with money order department, under Lairg ; and it com-prises the north-western extremity of the Scottish mainland to the extent of 18 by 15 miles, and includes several islets. Real property in 1880-81, 6470. Pop. 987. The coast extends westward from Whitenhead to Cape Wrath, and southward from Cape Wrath to Sandwood Bay ; measures, exclusive of sinuosities, about 22 miles ; includes, in the north, Farouthead, Loch Eriboll mouth, and Durness Bay ; and, over most of its extent, both on the north and on the west, is bold, lofty, cliffy, and cavernous. Loch Eriboll and the Kyle of Durness strike far southward from the north coast, and, with streams entering their head, cut the interior into three sections with distinctive names ; and Loch Hope, a long fresh-water lake, extending to within 1| mile of the sea, cuts the most easterly section into two. Benhope and the Mom are on the eastern boundary; and mountain ranges, upland masses, and deep moss tracts occupy so much ground throughout the interior as to leave but a very small aggregate of arable land. The prevailing aspect is wildly highland. A strikingly interesting object is Smoo Cave; a principal residence is Balnakiel; and chief antiquities are numerous standing-stones, cairns, and Scandinavian dunes. The churches are Established and Free. The chief public school has accommodation for 121 scholars, and there are minor appliances of education for the sequestered districts.

DUROR, rivulet, hamlet, and quoad sacra parish in north of Appin district, Argyleshire. The rivulet runs about 7 miles westward to Loch Linnhe at 5 miles south-south-west of Ballachulish. The hamlet lies on the rivulet near its mouth, and has a post office designated of Argyleshire, an inn, a church with 323 sittings, and a public school with about 63 scholars. Pop. of the quoad sacra parish, 489.

DURRAN, quondam lake, now rich meadow, in Olrig parish, Caithness.

DURRIS, parish, with church, on the Dee, 4J miles east of Banchory, Kincardineshire. It has a post office of its own name under Aberdeen. Its length is 7j miles ; its greatest breadth 5 miles ; its area 15,294 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 9949. Pop. 1014. The surface includes level meadow land adjacent to the Dee, hillocky acclivities in the central parts, and skirts of the Grampians upwards of 1000 feet high in the south. Durris House, a modern mansion connected by long colonnade with an ancient one, is the chief residence. The churches are Established and Free ; and the public schools are 2 new ones, with accommodation for 230 scholars.

DURRISDEER, village and parish in Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire. The village stands 5J miles north of Thornhill, and has a post office under Thornhill, a parochial church with fantastic mausoleum of the Douglas dukes of Queensberry, and a public school with about 90 scholars. The parish contains also the Duke of Buccleuch's seat of Drumlanrig Castle, and part of the village of CarronBridge. Its length is 8^ miles ; its greatest breadth 4^ miles ; its area 19,717 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 9540. Pop. 1107. The surface includes rich diversified lands on both sides of the Nith, and ascends to the Wallpath and to the watershed of some of the loftiest of the Lowther Mountains. About one-half of all the land is either pastoral or waste. The parish has vestiges of a Roman camp, and was the scene of Johnnie o' Breadislee's 'woeful hunting.' There are 3 public schools for 248 scholars, and they include recent enlargements for 80.

DURY, burn and braes in Fowlis-Wester parish, Perthshire.

DUSK.

DUSKER, islet, 2| miles west of Tyree, Argyleshire.

DUTHIL, parish, comprehending Duthil-proper and Rothiemurchus, on north-east border of Inverness-shire. Duthil-proper lies on left side of the Spey, is traversed by the Dulnain, contains the head post office of Aviemore, and the post office hamlet of Can-bridge, and measures 16 miles by 13. Rothiemurchus lies on right side of the Spey, and measures 10 miles by 7. Real property of the whole in 1880-81, 10,137. Pop., quoad civilia, 1664 ; quoad sacra, 1371. The surface of Duthil-proper includes alluvial belts on the Spey and the Dulnain,risestoCraigellachie, and ascends to the watershed of the Monadh-leagh mountains. Much of the scenery is highly picturesque. Two objects of interest are the modern mausoleum of the noble family of Seafield, and the ruin of the Grants' old tower of Muckerath. The churches are an Established and a Free in Duthil-proper, and an Established in Rothiemurchus. Eight schools for 471 scholars are in the united parish, and 4 of them and an enlargement for 200 are new.