FARE, hill, about 17 miles in circuit, 1545 feet high, averagely 18 miles west-by-south of Aberdeen. It was the scene of a battle in the Civil War of 1562.
FARG, rivulet, running about 7 miles windingly to the Earn, at If mile north-west of Abernethy, Perthshire.
FARIGAG, rivulet, running about 12 miles tortuously, and traversing a deep defile, to south-east side of Loch Ness, at 13 miles north-east of Fort-Augustus, Inverness-shire.
FARKIN, small bay in upper part of west side of Loch Lomond.
FARME, seat near Eutherglen, Lanark-
FARNELL, parish, containing Farnell Road railway station, 6 miles by railway south-east of Brechin, Forfarshire. It has a post office of its own name under Brechin. Its length is 5 J miles ; its great-est breadth 3f miles ; its area 5703 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 8531. Pop. 613. The northern section is flat land, adjacent to the South Esk ; and the other sections rise into a hill-ridge of no great height, and partly moorish. A chief object is Kinnaird Castle, the seat of the Earl of Southesk. The church is a hand-some modern edifice ; and the public school has about 123 scholars.
FARNUA, ancient parish, now part of Kirkhill, Inverness-shire.
FAROUTHEAD, promontory, faced with cliffs from 300 to 400 feet high, and projecting 3 miles from adjacent coast to a point 7 miles east-by-south of Cape Wrath, in Sutherland.
FARR, hamlet and parish in north of Sutherland. The hamlet lies on the coast, 25 miles west-by-south of Thurso, and has a post office under Thurso, an inn, an ancient monolith, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 136 scholars. The parish measures 33 miles in length, and 10 miles in greatest breadth. Real property in 1880-81, 10,198. Pop. , quoad civilia, 1930 ; quoad sacra, 1140. The coast has, exclusive of sinuosities, a length of 11 miles ; is high, rocky, and cavernous ; and includes Strathy, Armadale, and Farr Heads, and Strathy and Farr Bays. The interior is mountainous, and rises to alpine height in the south, but includes all Strathnaver and Strathstrathy, and contains consider-able aggregate of low arable land in these straths and on the sea-board. The antiquities are standing stones, tumuli, dunes, and a ruined castle. Established and Free churches are at Strathy. Five schools for 355 scholars are in the parish, and 2 of them and enlargements for 164 are new.
FARR, estate, with post office under Inverness, mansion, and an ancient Cale-donian stone circle in Daviot parish, Inverness-shire.
FARRAGON, mountain in Dull parish, Perthshire.
FARRALARIE, lake in Golspie parish, Sutherland.
FARRALINE, mountain lake in Dores parish, Inverness-shire.
FARRAR, head-stream of Beauly river, Inverness-shire.
FARSKANE, place, with coast cave and old chapel, in Rathven parish, Banff shire.
FASBEN, mountain, 1504 feet high, in Durness parish, Sutherland.
FASKALLY, seat on the Tummel, near Pitlochrie, Perthshire.
FASKINE, village and colliery in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire. Pop., with Palace Craig, 475.
FASLANE, place, with vestiges of ancient castle and chapel, in Row parish, Dumbartonshire.
FASNACLOICH, estate, with post office under Ledaig, mansion, and lake, on Creran river, Lorn, Argyleshire.
FASNAKYLE, estate, with mansion, Roman Catholic modern chapel, and old chapel and burying-ground, in Strathglass, Inverness-shire.
FASNEY, affluent of the Whitadder, on southern border of Haddingtonshire.
FASQUE, seat of Sir Thomas Gladstone, Bart., 1 mile north of Fettercairn, Kincardineshire.
FASSERN, seat on north side of upper part of Loch Eil, Inverness-shire.
FAST CASTLE, quondam crown-fortalice, now a ruin, 7 miles north-west of Eyemouth, Berwickshire. It stands on a precipitous peninsulated lofty rock, over-hanging the sea, made a considerable figure in history, commands an extensive impressive view, and may have suggested to Sir Walter Scott some features of 'Wolf's Crag ' in his Bride of Lammermoor.
FATLIPS, conspicuous recently-reconstructed old castle, on crown of Minto Crags, Roxburghshire.
FATLIPS, ancient castle, now a fragmentary ruin, on south-east skirt of Tinto Mountain, Lanarkshire.
FAULD, burn, running to the Briech, in south-west corner of Linlithgowshire.
FAULDHOUSE, town and quoad sacra parish on Fauld burn, 3J miles south-south-west of Whitburn, Linlithgowshire. The town has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Linlithgowshire, a railway station, an Established church, and a Roman Catholic chapel. Pop. of town with Crofthead, 3000 ; of quoad sacra parish, 3933.
FAUNGRASS, small affluent of 'the Blackadder, at 2 miles west-north-west of Greenlaw, Berwickshire.
FEA, eminence, with precipitous cavernous sea-front, in Cross section of Sanday Island, Orkney.
FEACHAN, sea-loch opening from Firth of Lorn at 5J miles south-by-west of Oban, Argyleshire. It is flanked by high rocky promontories, and it strikes about 5 miles, first south-eastward, next north-eastward, up to fine glen scenery.
