FORGAN, parish, containing Newport post town, and "Woodhaven and Marytown villages, on north coast of Fife, opposite Dundee. Its coast length is about 3^ miles ; its greatest length nearly 6 miles ; its greatest breadth fully 2 miles ; its area 4983 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 26,027. Pop., quoad civilia, 3308 ; quoad sacra, 1533. The coast is mostly bold or rocky, with average height of about 40 feet. The interior is mostly undulating, but includes several vales and two small hills, and presents a charming appearance. The seats are St. Fort, Tayfield, and numerous villas ; and the antiquities are several tumuli. The churches are Established, Free, and Congregational ; and the schools are 5, with accommodation for 457 scholars.
FORGANDENNY, village in Perthshire, and parish partly also in Kinross-shire. The village stands 4 miles south-west of Perth, and has a post office under Bridge of Earn, a railway station, an Established church, a Free church, and a public school with about 86 scholars. The parish contains also Path of Condie hamlet, and measures about 8 miles by 3^. Acres in Perthshire, 7732 ; in Kinross-shire, 1214. Real property in 1880-81, 8263 and 621. Pop. 617 and 10. The northern section is part of the rich valley of the Earn, and the other sections, comprising fully three-fourths of the entire surface, are part of the Ochil Hills. The seats are Freeland, Rossie, and Condie ; and the antiquities are remains or vestiges of three extensive fortifications. A United Presbyterian church and a public school are at Path of Condie.
FORGE, seat in Canonbie parish, Dumfriesshire.
FORGEBRAEHEAD, village in Canonbie parish, Dumfriesshire.
FORGLEN, parish on north-east border of Bantfshire, adjacent to Turriff. It has a post office under Turriff. Its length ia 5 miles ; its breadth 3^ miles ; its area 6249 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 5451. Pop. 744. The surface slopes to the Deveron, and is diversified with gentle rising-grounds. The mansions are Forglen House and Carnousie, the former a seat of Sir Robert J. Abercromby, Bart.; and the antiquities are two barrows and remains of a religious house. The churches are Established and Free ; and the schools are a new one and an enlarged one with accommodation for 205 scholars.
FORGUE, parish, with church hamlet 7 miles north-east of Huntly, on north border of Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Huntly. Its length is about 9 miles ; its greatest breadth about 6 miles ; its area 17,354 aares. Real property in 1880-81, 13,538. Pop., quoad civilia, 2422; quoad sacra, 1303. The surface includes the lofty, wooded, conical hill of Foreman, and is elsewhere a pleasing assemblage of knolls, vales, and meadows. The seats are Frendraught, Cobairdy, Haddo, Corse, Drumblair, Auchaber, Templeland, and Boyne's-Mill ; and the antiquities are remains of Frendraught Castle, and vestiges of a Roman redoubt and ancient Caledonian stone circles. The churches are 2 Established, a Free, and an Episcopalian, one of the Established at Yth an-Wells ; and the schools, exclusive of 2 in Ythan-Wells, are 3, with accommodation for 276 scholars, and 1 of them and a class-room for 130 are new.
FORMALL, lofty wooded hill overhanging Lintrathen Loch, on west border of Forfarshire. .
FORMARTINE, ancient district, of 280 square miles, between Buchan and Garioch, Aberdeenshire. It gives the title of viscount to the Earl of Aberdeen.
FORMARTINE AND BUCHAN RAILWAY, amalgamated part of Great North of Scotland railway system.
FORNETH, seat on Loch Clunie, and neighbouring place with post office under Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
FORNIGHTY, place in Ardclach parish, Nairnshire.
FORRES, town and parish in north-west of Elginshire. The town stands at a great junction of Highland Railway, amid charming environs, 24| miles east-north-east of Inverness ; is thought to occupy the site of the Roman Varis, and is near the famous ancient sculptured obelisk called Sweno's Stone ; was made a royal burgh by "William the Lion, and acquired celebrity through Shakespeare's drama of Macbeth; is now a seat of sheriff courts, a centre of considerable business, and a resort of invalids ; unites with Inverness, Fortrose, and Nairn in sending a member to Parliament ; publishes a weekly newspaper, and another twice a week ; consists of several well-built streets ; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 4 banking offices, 5 hotels, a large new hydropathic establishment, a very fine market-cross, a handsome spired town hall of 1839, a market hall of 1876, conspicuous monuments to Lord Nelson and Dr. Thompson, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, Congregational, _ Baptist, and Episcopalian churches, a spired free school, 2 public schools, a museum, and other institutions. Real property in 1880-81, 14, 315. Pop. 4030. The parish is 4 miles long and 2 miles broad, and com-prises 5440 acres. Real property in 1880-81 of landward part, 7784. Pop. 4752. Findhorn river traces the western boundary, and Forres burn, coming in from Rafford, runs through the interior to Findhorn estuary. The north-western district, comprising more than half the land, is rich alluvial plain ; the central district is diversified by small round hills and gentle acclivities ; and the south-eastern district rises to considerable elevation, and is mostly reclaimed moor or moss. The chief seats are Forres House, Sanquhar, Invererne, and Drumduan. Six schools for 1039 scholars are in the parish, and 1 of them and a class-room for 460 are new.
