DWARFIE-STONE, sandstone block, 28 feet long and 14 feet broad, 2 miles south-east of top of Ward Hill, on Hoy Island, Orkney. It has been artificially hollowed, is popularly associated with ancient Scandinavian thaumaturgy, and may have been used in ancient heathen rites.
DYCE, village and parish in Aberdeenshire. The village stands near junction of Great North of Scotland Kailway with the Formartine and Buchan line, 7 miles north-west of Aberdeen, is conjoint with Gordon Place village, and has a post office, with money order department, under Aberdeen, a railway station, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 127 scholars. Pop. 561. The parish is about 6 miles long and 3 miles broad, and comprises 5237 acres. Eeal property in 1880-81, 5717. Pop. 1162. The river Don traces all the northern and eastern boundary. The land adjacent to the river is low rich haugh, and that backward thence rises into a low heathy hill about 3 miles long. Granite is almost the only rock, and has been extensively quarried. The antiquities are an ancient Caledonian stone circle and several cairns.
DYE, rivulet, running about 9 miles east-south-eastward, among the Lammermoors to the Whitadder, at 6 miles west-north-west of Dunse, Berwickshire.
DYE, small river, running about 20 miles east-south-eastward to the North Esk, at 4 miles north-north-east of Brechin, Forf arshire.
DYKE, village in Elginshire, and parish partly also in Nairnshire. The village stands 3 miles west-by-south of Forres, is embosomed among trees, and has the parochial church, a Free church, and a public school with about 87 scholars. The parish contains also the villages of Kintessack, Whitemire, and Broom of Moy ; and its post town is Forres. It lies along Moray Firth and Findhorn river, and measures about 5J miles on the coast, and 7 miles southward. Acres, in Elginshire, 13,550 ; in Nairnshire, 29. Real property in 1880-81, 9014 and 45. Pop. 1236. The northern section is mostly filled with the Culbin sands ; and the southern section is variously sloping and undulating, and looks like fertile embellished champaign. Darnaway Castle, with its pleasure grounds and forest,is a prominent feature; and other seats are Brodie,Dalvey,Moy,and Kincorth. Hardmoor Heath, adjacent to the Culbin sands,is Shakespeare's scene of Macbeth and Banquo's meeting with the weird sisters.
DYKEHEAD, town near Shotts railway station, Shotts parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 1105.
DYKEHEAD, village in Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 264.
DYKEHEAD, place near Kilmaurs, Ayrshire. It has a post office under Kilmar-iKick.
DYKEHEAD, village near Kirriemuir, Forf arshire.
DYKEHEAD, village near Bargeddie, in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire.
DYKEHEAD, village in Slamannan parish, Stirlingshire. It has a public school with about 62 scholars.
DYKEHEAD, hamlet in Port-of-Menteith parish, Perthshire. It has a public school with about 51 scholars.
DYKENOOK, place, with public school, in Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire.
DYROCK, affluent of the Girvan, at Kirkmichael village, Ayrshire.
DYSART, town and parish on south coast of Fife. The town stands 2 miles north-north-east of Kirkcaldy ; dates from at least the latter part of 9th century ; was long a place of extensive saltworks and of a brisk commerce, conducted by what an old song calls the ' canty carles o' Dysart ; ' adjoins coal mines, which have often been on fire, and are exaggeratingly described in George Buchanan's Franciscanus ; figures also in Tennant's Anst'er Fair ; has in its harbour a high rock, said to have been fortified by Oliver Cromwell ; presents now a decayed and stagnant appearance ; ranks as a royal and parliamentary burgh, but includes, in the latter character, large suburbs bearing other names ; unites with Kirkcaldy, Kinghorn, and Burntisland in sending a member to Parliament ; and has a post office, with all departments, designated of Fifeshire, a railway station, a banking office, a plain steepled town hall, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches, and 2 public schools with about 748 scholars. Pop. of the parliamentary burgh, 10, 877. The parish contains also the suburban towns of Gallatown,Pathhead,and Sinclairtown, and the village of Boreland. Its length is 4 miles ; its greatest breadth 3 miles ; its area 4197 acres. Real property, inclusive of the burgh, in 1880-81, 41,393. Pop., quoad civilia, 11,601 ; quoad sacra, 7657. The coast measures about 2J miles ; is bold and rocky ; and includes the Red Rocks, associated with old traditions of witch-burning, and presenting a romantic appearance. The interior rises gradually for about a mile, and is crossed in the northern part by Ore river. A chief residence is Dysart House, the seat of the Earl of Rosslyn ; and chief antiquities are ruins of Ravenscraig Castle, and a large stone, said to commemorate a battle in 9th century between the Scots and the Danes. An Established church is at Pathhead, and Free churches are at Pathhead and Gallatown. 8 schools for 1705 scholars are in the parish,and 1 of them and an enlargement for 400 are new. The town or parish gives the title of earl to the family of Tollemache.
DYSART, section of Marytown, Forfarshire.
EACHAIG, small river, traversing of its own name, from Loch Eck to Holy Loch, in Cowal, Argyleshire.
EAGERNESS, headland, with site of old castle, on north-east side of Garlieston Bay, Wigtonshire.
