FOTHERINGHAM, seat in Inverarity parish, Forfarshire.
FOUDLAND, bleak, moorish, lofty up-land tract, in Forgue, Insch, and Cul-salmond parishes, Aberdeenshire. Its summit is 1529 feet high. Excellent roofing-slate quarries are on its Insch part.
FOULA, island, 16 miles west-south-west of mainland coast of "Walls parish, Shetland. It measures about 3 miles by 1J ; rises from the sea in lofty cliffs, swarming with sea-fowl ; consists of 5 conical hills, with extreme altitude of about 1300 feet ; and has a post office under Lerwick, and a house serving as church and school-house. Pop. 267.
FOULDEN, village and parish in east of Merse, Berwickshire. The village stands 3J miles east of Chirnside, and has a post office under Berwick, a parochial church, and a public school with about 63 scholars. The parish measures about 2 miles each way, and comprises 3278 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 6541. Pop. 393. The surface rises gently northward from the Whitadder, and has a hill-ridge about 550 feet high on its northern border. The seats are Foulden House and Nunlands.
FOULIS, seat of Sir Charles Munro, Bart., in Urquhart parish, Ross-shire.
FOULSHIELS, birthplace of Mungo Park, on Yarrow river, 3J miles west-by-north of Selkirk.
FOUNTAINBLEAU, place, with medicinal spring, near Dumfries.
FOUNTAINBRIDGE, western suburb of Edinburgh.
FOUNTAINH ALL, hamlet, 4 miles north-north-west of Stow, E dinburghshire . It ha s a post office under Stow, a railway station, and a public school with about 107 scholars.
FOUNTAINHALL, a seat of Sir Thomas N. D. Lauder, Bart. , in Pencaitland parish, Haddingtonshire.
FOURMERKLAND, old tower in Holywood parish, Dumfriesshire.
FOURMILEHILL, hamlet in Corstorphine parish, Edinburghshire.
FOURTOWNS, village group, comprising Hightae, Greenhill, Heck, and Smallholm, in Lochmaben parish, Dumfriesshire.
FOVERAN, parish, containing the post office village of Newburgh, on east coast of Aberdeenshire. It measures about 7 miles by 3, and comprises 10,537 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 13,167. Pop. 2042. The surface looks to be level, but really rises gradually from the sea. The seats are Foveran House, Tillery, and Ythan Lodge ; and the antiquities are ruins of two castles and an old chapel. The churches are Established and Free. There are 3 schools for 392 scholars, and 1 of them and a class-room for 124 are new.
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FOWLIS, village, 5 miles north-east of Crieff, Perthshire. It dates from ancient times, was the seat of the courts of the Earls of Strathearn, retains a curiously sculptured ancient cross, and has a post office under Crieff, a parochial church, and a public school.
FOWLIS, village on east verge of Perthshire, 6 miles north-west of Dundee. It has a fine Saxon church of 12th century, re-paired in 1842, and a public school with about 118 scholars.
FOWLIS, railway station, 4J miles north-north-east of Dingwall, Ross-shire.
FOWLIS - EASTER, parish, containing Fowlis village, on east verge of Perthshire. It measures 4J by 3f miles, and comprises 2824 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 3699. Pop. 311. The surface includes Blacklaw Hill, and elsewhere slopes gently to the south. The ministerial charge is a joint one with Lundie.
FOWLIS MOWAT, estate in Leochel parish, Aberdeenshire.
FOWLIS - WESTER, parish containing Fowlis village, 5 miles north-east of Crieff, and the villages or hamlets of Gilmerton, Balgowan, and Buchanty. It measures 6 by 4J miles, and comprises 22,803 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 15,651. Pop., quoad civilia, 1112; quoad sacra, 771. The surface is intersected by two mountain ranges, includes part of the Grampians on the north, and is greatly diversified by rugged hills on the south. A striking feature is part of Glenalmond. Chief seats are Abercairney and Cultoquhey; and chief antiquities are a cromlech, a double concentric Caledonian stone circle, and the moundish site of the castle of the Earls of Strathearn. Parts are included quoad sacra in Monzie and Logiealmond. There are 3 schools with accommodation for 239 scholars.
FOWLSHEUGH, lofty sea-cliff, swarming with sea-fowl, in Dunnottar parish, Kincardineshire.
FOXHALL, seat adjacent to Kirkliston, Linlitbgowshire.
FOXLEY, village in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire.
FOXTON, seat in Cupar parish, Fife.
FOYERS, mountain rivulet, running about 14 miles north-north-westward to Loch Ness, at 19 miles south-west of Inverness. It traverses a wild high glen, and makes, in its lowmost reach, two grand famous leaps of 40 and 90 feet. Foyers House adjoins it near its mouth.
FRANKFIELD, small lake in north-eastern outskirt of Glasgow.
FRAOCH, islet, with ruined strong fortalice, in Loch Awe, near Kilchurn Castle, Argyleshire.
FRAOCHY, lake, about 2 miles long, in Glenquoich, Perthshire.
FRASERBURGH, town and parish in north-east extremity of Aberdeenshire. The town stands on small bay adjacent to Kinnaird Head, 47^ miles north-by-east of Aberdeen ; was founded in early part of 16th century ; is a seaport, the head of a fishery district, and a seat of consider-able provincial trade ; has an artificial harbour, formed in the time of war with France, at a cost of about 50,000, and designed in 1881 to be improved at a cost of about 30,000 ; had a harbour income in 1880 of 10,186 ; has a head post office with all departments, a terminal railway station, 4 banking offices, and 2 hotels ; consists of well-built, spacious streets, crossing one another at right angles, and drained by works commenced in 1876 ; and contains a fine old hexagonal cross, & handsome dome-capped town hall of 1855, a spired spacious parochial church of 1802, a large quoad sacra parochial church of 1876, a Free church, erected at a cost of 6200 in 1880, United Presbyterian, Congregational, Evangelical Union, Baptist, and Episcopalian churches, an academy, 2 public schools, 2 other schools, a public library, and an hospital of 1878. Pop. 6529. The parish contains also Broadsea village, includes a district detached 1J mile from the main body, measures from end to end about 8 miles by 3|, and com-prises 8367 acres. Keal property in 1880-81, 34,692. Pop., quoad civilia, 7596; quoad sacra, 3238. The surface includes Kinnaird Head in extreme north, and part of Mormond Hill in extreme south, but is elsewhere nearly flat, with only gradual ascent from the coast. The public schools were designed in 1877 to have enlargements for 200 additional scholars.
