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EARN (BRIDGE OF).

EARNOCK, seat in Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire.

EARNSIDE, ancient forest, now extinct, on south side of head of Firth of Tay, about 4 miles downward from mouth of river Earn, Perthshire and Fife.

EASDALE, island and village, 12 miles south-west-by-south of Oban, Argyleshire. The island lies so near Seil as to be separated by only a good natural harbour ; has an area of only about 1 square mile, and lies so low as to require protection from the billows by embankings of debris, but is all a quarry of prime roofing-slates; produces about five millions of them a year; and has, at one part, been worked down to 120 feet below sea-level. The village, in one sense, stands all on the island, in another sense, includes a village on Seil ; conducts much business in export of slates, and by regular calls of the steamers between the Clyde and the north ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Oban, and a public school with about 80 scholars. Pop. of the part on Easdale Island, 452.

EASNAMBROC, fall of about 30 feet on River Glass, about a mile above Fasnacoil, Inverness-shire.

EASSIE, parish on west border of Forfarshire. It has a railway station of its own name, 8 miles west-south-west of Forfar ; and its post town is Glammis, 1J mile east of its eastern border. Its length is 4| miles ; its greatest breadth 2| miles ; its area 5053 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 8923. Pop. 561. The western section is part of Strathmore ; and the eastern one is part of the slopes of the Sidlaw Hills. Eassie burn comes in from Auchterhouse, and runs altogether 6 miles windingly to the Dean ; and that river goes sluggishly along the northern boundary. The church is a handsome modern edifice ; and the public school includes a new class-room, and has accommodation for 126 scholars.

EAST ABERDEEN, quoad sacra parish in Aberdeen. Pop. 4207.

EAST BALRYMONTH, hill in St. Andrews parish, Fife.

EASTBANK, seat in Erskine parish, Renfrewshire.

EAST BARNS.

EAST CALDER.

EAST COALTOWN, village in Wemyss parish, Fife.

EASTEND, seat in Carmichael parish, Lanarkshire.

EASTER ANSTRUTHER.

EASTER BRAKY, estate in Kinnell parish, Forfarshire.

EASTER BUCKIE.

EASTER CLUNE, place, with ruined ancient fortalice and site of ancient chapel, in Birse parish, Aberdeenshire.

EASTER DOWN, one of the Ochil Hills, green to the summit, in Fossaway parish, Perthshire.

EASTER ELCHIES, seat, once occupied by the distinguished judge Lord Elchies, in Knockando parish, Elginshire.

EASTERFIELD, place in Iiaverkeithny parish, Banffshire. It has a public school with about 60 scholars.

EASTER GALLATON.

EASTER HALL, seat on the Clyde, in eastern outskirts of Glasgow.

EASTER HOUSE, place, with railway station, 4 miles south-east of Glasgow.

EASTER HOUSE, quondam seat of the Duke of Argyle's ancestors, in Roseneath parish, Dumbartonshire.

EASTER LENZIE, parish, constituted in 1649, and now called Cumbernauld, in Dumbartonshire.

EASTER OGLE, seat in Tannadice parish, Forfarshire.

EASTER ROSS.

EASTER ROSSLAND, hamlet in Erskine parish, Renfrewshire.

EASTER SKENE, seat in Skene parish, Aberdeenshire.

EASTERTOWN, hill in Fyvie parish, Aberdeenshire.

EASTERTYRE, seat on the Tay, between Logierait and Weem, Perthshire.

EASTFIELD, village near Rutherglen, Lanarkshire. An Established iron church was erected at it in 1879. Pop. 780.

EAST FORTUNE, railway station, 3 miles east of Drem, Haddingtonshire.

EAST GRANGE, railway station, 6 miles west of Dunfermline.

EAST HAVEN, fishing-village, with rail-way station, 5 miles south-west of Arbroath, Forfarshire.

EAST HEAD, headland near Portsoy, Banffshire.

EAST HELMSDALE, suburb of Helmsdale, 17 miles north-east of Golspie, Sutherland. It has a public school with about 164 scholars. Pop. 53.

EASTHOUSES, village in Newbattle parish, Edinburghshire. Pop. 415.

EAST KILBRIDE.

EAST KILPATRICK.

EAST LINTON.

EAST LOTHIAN.

EASTMAINS, scene of alleged ancient great battle in Dunnichen parish, Forfarshire.

EAST MONKLAND.

EAST MORRISTON.

EASTMUIR, village in Shettleston parish, Lanarkshire. It has a public school with about 227 scholars.

EAST MUIRHOUSE, estate in Eaglesham parish, Renfrewshire.

EAST NEUK O' FIFE, tract around Fifeness, at eastern extremity of Fife.

EAST NEWPORT, village, with railway station between West Newport and Tayport, on north coast of Fife.


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