GRANNOCH, lake, 3 miles long, in Girthon parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
GRANTON, seaport on the Forth, 2J miles north-north-west of Edinburgh. It was founded in 1835, and constituted a head port in 1860 ; it is the ferry station of the North British Kailway system for Fife, Dundee, and Perth, and the port for many coasting and sea-going steamers ; and it has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Edinburgh, a commodious railway station, a banking office, a hotel, a grand pier 1700 feet long and from 80 to 160 feet broad, sheltered all round by strong breakwater bulwarks, an Established church of 1879, a Free church at some little distance, erected in 1881, and 2 public schools. The vessels belonging to it at end of 1879 were 5 sailing vessels of 612 tons, and 17 steam vessels of 2089 tons. The vessels which entered in 1879 were 597 British of 180,022 tons, and 358 foreign of 71,229 tons ; and the vessels which cleared were 605 British of 184,107 tons, and 359 foreign of 72,926 tons. Pop. 855.
GRANTON-ROAD, railway station, 2| miles west-by-north of centre of Edinburgh.
GRANTOWN, town in valley of the Spey, 23| miles south of Forres, Elginshire. It was founded in 1766 ; is regularly aligned and well-built, of whitish fine-grained granite ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Inverness-shire, a railway station, 3 banking offices, 2 hotels, a new court-house, a public hall of 1877, a water supply of 1881, Established, Free, Congregational, and Baptist churches, a grammar school, and an industrial school. Pop. 1374.
GRANT'S HOUSE, place, 9 miles north-west of Ay ton, Berwickshire. It has a railway station, and a post office, with money order department, designated of Berwickshire.
GRASS, lake in Dallas parish, Elginshire.
GRASSFIELD, seat on south-east side of West Loch Tarbert, Argyleshire.
GRASSHOLM, islet adjacent to Shapinshay, Orkney.
GRASSHOUSES, hamlet in Glammis parish, Forfarshire.
GRASSYWALLS, vestige of large Roman camp, 3 miles north of Perth.
GRAVELAND, headland at middle of west side of Yell Island, Shetland.
GRAVEN, place, with Free church of 1881, in Lochs parish, Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
GRAY, seat, 3J miles west-north-west of Dundee.
GRAY, hill, with large tumuli, in Towie parish, Aberdeenshire.
GREAT CAIRN, mountain, 2633 feet high, overhanging Glenaven, in south-west extremity of Baiiffshire.
GREAT CAUSEWAY.
GREAT CAVE, cavern on west coast of Gighalsland, Argyleshire.
GREAT COLONNADE.
GREAT DIRRINGTON, high conical hill in Longformacus parish, Berwickshire.
GREAT DOOR, strait between Craignish Point and Garbhreisa Islet, Argyleshire.
GREAT GLEN, glen, 57 miles long, south-westward from Moray Firth at Inverness, to Loch Eil at Fort-William, Inverness-shire. Its bottom is occupied, to the aggregate of nearly 40 miles, by navigable lakes, and all traversed by the Caledonian Canal.
GREATLAWS, place, where Roman coins have been found, in Skirling parish, Peeblesshire.
GREATMOOR, mountain, 1964 feet high, in Castleton parish, Roxburghshire.
GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY, railway system ramified through Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, and Elginshire, and passing into junction with Highland Railway. It was authorized in 1847 as a line from Aberdeen to Inverness, with branches to Banff, Portsoy, Garmouth, and Burghead, aggregately 138J miles long. It became amalgamated with other lines in 1866 ; and it now includes, in itself or in its working, the Denburn, the Formartine and Buchan, the Old Meldrum Junction, the Alford Valley, the Aberdeen and Turriff, the Banff, Macduff, and Turriff Extension, the Banffshire, Keith, and Dufftown, the Strathspey, and the Morayshire. The amount of its stock and share capital, in 1879-80, was 2,960,724; of its ordinary capital, 87,791 ; of its loans and debenture stock, 956,807.
GREAT SKERRY, reef off Drainie coast, Elginshire.
GREEN AN, ruined old fortalice, f mile east-by-north of Ayr Heads, Ayrshire.
GREENAN, small lake in Rothesay parish, Isle of Bute.
GREENBANK, suburb of Greenock, Renfrewshire. It has a United Presbyterian church of 1882.
GREENBANK, seat in Mearns parish, Renfrewshire.
GREENBANK, birth-place of Archbishop Spottiswood, near Mid-Calder, Edinburghshire.
GREENBANK, seat in North Yell parish, Shetland.
GREENBARN, place of fairs in Newhills parish, Aberdeenshire.
GREENBRAE, part of Stoop viUage, near Dumfries.
GREEN CASTLE, ancient Caledonian fort in Fordoun parish, Kincardineshire.
GREENCRAIG, hill, with vestige of ancient fort, and with grand view, in Creich parish, Fife.
GREENDYKES, estate, with remarkably fine farm offices, in Gladsmuir parish, Haddingtonshire.
GREENEND, village in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire.
