EAGLE.
EAGLESCARNIE, seat in Bolton parish, Ha ddingtonshire.
EAGLESFIELD, village in Middlebie parish, Dumfriesshire. It has a post office, "with money order department, under Ecclefechan. Pop. 534.
EAGLESHAM, town and parish in south-east of Renfrewshire. The town stands 9 miles south of Glasgow ; possessed some importance in the time of Charles n. ; was entirely rebuilt, on a neat regular plan, subsequent to 1796 ; and has a post office under Glasgow, a banking office, a cotton factory, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic churches, and a public school with about 106 scholars. Pop. 888. The parish i& about 7 miles long and 6 miles broad, and comprises 15,666 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 14,675. Pop. 1385. The surface lies at elevations of more than 500 feet above sea-level, has hills of from 1000 to 1200 feet of altitude, and includes a considerable aggregate of moor. Polnoon Lodge is a chief residence; and Polnoon Castle, the seat of the ancestors of the Earl of Eglinton, but now reduced to mere sub-basement, is a chief antiquity.
EAGLESHAY, island in Rousay parish, Orkney. It lies about 10 miles north of Kirkwall ; measures 3J miles in length and about 1 mile in breadth ; presents a pleasant lowland appearance ; was the scene of the murder of St. Magnus ; contains a small ancient Gothic church, said to be on the spot where he was murdered ; and has a public school. Pop. 165.
EAGLESHAY, pastoral island in east of St. Magnus Bay, Shetland.
EANAIG, affluent of the Oikell, on north border of Ross-shire.
EARLCAIRNEY, large cairn on high seabank in Dalmeny parish, Linlithgowshire.
EARL'S BURN, stream, running south-south-eastward to the Carron, in west of St. Ninian's parish, Stirlingshire.
EARL'S CROSS, ancient monument, commemorative of victory over Norsemen in 13th century, near Dornoch, Sutherland.
EARLSFERRY, decayed old royal burgh, 5 miles east-south-east of Largo, Fife. It has an ancient town-hall and a public school, the latter with about 88 scholars. Pop. 286.
EARLSHALL, estate, with interesting ancient mansion, in Leuchars parish, Fife.
EARL'S HILL, lofty hill adjacent to Earl's burn, in St. Ninian's parish, Stirlingshire.
EARL'S HILL, eminence, anciently seat of earldom of Buchan courts, in Ellon, Aberdeenshire.
EARL'S SEAT, central summit of Lennox Hills, 1894 feet high, 5 miles north-west of Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire.
EARLSTON, town and parish on south-west border of Berwickshire. The town stands on Leader river, 6 miles south-south-east of Lauder ; was an occasional residence of King David I., and then bore the name of Ercildoun ; passed to the Earls of Dunbar, and then took the name of Earlston ; possesses a fragment of the abode and death-place of Thomas the Rhymer ; consists chiefly of one long street at right angles with the Leader ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Berwickshire, a railway station, a banking office, two good inns, a town hall founded in 1872, an Established church, a United Presbyterian church of 1881, another U.P. church, and a large new public school ; and carries on manufacture of woollens and famous ginghams. Pop. 1010. The parish contains also the hamlets of Redpath and Fans. Its length is 7J miles ; its greatest breadth 4 miles ; its area 9968 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 14,432. Pop. 1767. The surface is partly hilly and partly comparatively flat. The chief hill rises to a height of 1031 feet, and has traces of a Roman camp. The principal residences are Carolside, Cowdenknowes, Park, Kirklands, and Mellerstain, the last a seat of the Earl of Haddington.
EARLSTON, seat of Sir William Gordon, Bart., on west side of Kirkcudbright Bay, Kirkcudbrightshire.
EARLSTON, ruined old castle, rivulet, and cascade on the Ken, in Dairy parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
EARLY VALE, place at mouth of burn, with fine waterfall, and adjacent to narrow rocky gorge, on upper part of Eddlestone river, Peeblesshire.
EARN, lake and river, giving name to Strathearn district, Perthshire. The lake lies in head of the strath ; extends 7 miles eastward, with width of from 1 to l| mile ; has a surface elevation of 303 feet above sea-level, and in some parts a depth of about 600 feet ; has wooded shores of various contour, and average breadth of about ^ mile ; is overhung by mountain summits from 1889 to 2225 feet high, mostly within If mile of its margin, and by still higher ones within 4J miles ; and exhibits scenery of much beauty and grandeur, but without corresponding diversity or force. The river runs from the lake eastward to the Tay at 6 miles south-east of Perth ; has a length of only 27 miles measured in straight line, but is so sinuous as to have a length of probably about 70 miles measured along its bed ; and is famous for the brilliance and variety of its scenery down to Crieff, and for exquisite beauty thence to the Tay.
EARN, rivulet, running about 7 miles north-eastward to the White Cart, at 2 miles north of Eaglesham, Renfrewshire.
