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GRADEN - PLACE, vestige of strong ancient Border fortalice in Linton parish, Roxb urghshire.

GRAEMSAY, island, about 4J miles in circumference, \ mile south of Stromness, Orkney. It is crowned by two lighthouses, with respectively white and red fixed lights, visible at the distance of 11 and 15 nautical miles. Pop. 236.

GRAHAM'S CASTLE, ruined strong ancient fortalice, near western extremity of St. Ninian's parish, Stirlingshire.

GRAHAM'S DYKE.

GRAHAMSHILL, suburb of Airdrie, Lanarkshire.

GRAHAMSLAW, place, with artificial caves, hiding-places of the Covenanters, in Eckford parish, Roxburghshire.

GRAHAMSTOWN, suburb of Falkirk, Stirlingshire. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Falkirk, a railway station, and a steepled Gothic quoad sacra parochial church of 1876. Pop. of its quoad sacra parish, 5200.

GRAHAMSTOWN, section or suburb of Barrhead, Renfrewshire.

GRAITNEY.

GRAMPIANS, all chains and groups of mountains, north of Lennox, east of Lorn, and south of Great Glen. One chain, the grandest and loftiest, often called the Central Grampians, extends eastward from Bennevis to Mount Battock ; another chain extends northward from Benlomond to contact with the former at Rannoch ; and a third series, but not a chain, flanks the north-west side of the line of straths from head-streams of the Forth to vicinity of Stonehaven.

GRAMRY, islet, north of Lismore, in Loch Linnhe, Argyleshire.

GRANDHOLM, seat and factories in Old Machar parish, Aberdeenshire.

GRANDTULLY, estate, with railway station, mansion, chapel-of-ease, and public school, on the Tay, 6 miles west of Logierait, Perthshire. The mansion be-longs to Sir Archibald D. Stewart, Bart. ; is an old castellated pile, kept in habitable condition ; and is believed to be the prototype of ' Tully veolan ' in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley.

GRANGE, southern suburb of Edinburgh, extending about a mile westward from Newington to Morningside. It covers the quondam grange or farm of St. Giles' Collegiate Church ; consists mostly of rows of modern or recent villas, along spacious thoroughfares ; contains two hand-some churches, Established and Free, of respectively 1871 and 1866 ; and adjoins a modern ornate cemetery, containing the graves of numerous distinguished men.

GRANGE, parish, with railway station between Keith and Rothiemay, in Banffshire. Its post town is Keith. Its length is G miles ; its greatest breadth 5 miles ; its area 15,041 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 7470. Pop. 1754. The southern border is a hill-ridge ; the tract adjacent to that is low ground traversed by Isla river ; and the tracts northward rise in three successive ridges to a termination on Knock Hill at an altitude of 1409 feet above sea-level. Limestone abounds, and is worked. A grand ancient castle of the abbots of Kinloss stood on a spot now occupied by the parochial church; and a tumulus, called the King's Cairn, supposed to commemorate the result of a battle with the Danes, is on the top of Altmore Hill. The churches are Established, Free, and United Presbyterian. There are 3 schools for 353 scholars, and 2 of them for 240 are new.

GRANGE, village in St. Andrews parish, Fife.

GRANGE, village in Errol parish, Perthshire.

GRANGE, seat and large distillery in Burntisland parish, Fife.

GRANGE, seat in Monifieth parish, Forfarshire.

GRANGE, seat in Carriden parish, Linlithgowshire.

GRANGE, burn, entering the Carron, at Grangemouth, Stirlingshire.

GRANGE, burn bisecting Kirkcudbright parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

GRANGEFELL, hill in Tundergarth parish, Dumfriesshire.

GRANGEHALL, seat in Kinloss parish, Elginshire.

GRANGEMOUTH, seaport town and quoad sacra parish in Stirlingshire. The town stands at east end of Forth and Clyde Canal, 3 miles north-east of Falkirk ; has site, environs, and aspect similar to those of a Dutch town ; serves both as the entrepot of the canal and the seat of commerce for most of Stirlingshire ; carries on shipbuilding and rope-making, and publishes a weekly newspaper; and has a head post office with all departments, a terminal railway station, two banking offices, extensive docks, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches, 2 large public schools, and a public park opened in 1882. The harbour included, subsequent to 1841, a wet dock of 4 acres and two timber basins of 17 acres; and acquired, in 1879-82, a new dock of 11 acres, a new timber basin of 8 acres, and other import-ant extensions and improvements. The vessels belonging to the port at end of 1879 were 39 sailing vessels of 2759 tons, and 33 steam vessels of 8188 tons. The vessels which entered in 1879 were 1116 British of 310,132 tons, and 455 foreign of 83,592 tons ; and those which cleared were 1139 British of 316,509 tons, and 453 foreign of 83,081 tons. Pop. of the town, 4424 ; of the quoad sacra parish, 4560

GRANGEMUIR, seat in Anstruther-Wester parish, Fife.

GRANGE OF LINDORES, village in Abdie parish. Fife.

GRANGEPANS, coast village, suburban to Borrowstownness, Linlithgowshire. Pop. 798.


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