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HARTHILL, ruined castle in Oyne parish, Aberdeenshire.

HARTHOPE, section of Moffat parish within Lanarkshire.

HARTIE, wild pass through Cuchullin Mountains, Isle of Skye.

HARTREE, seat in Culter parish, Lanarkshire. HARTRI66E, a seat of Lord Stratheden in Jedburgh parish, Roxburghshire.

HARTSGARTH, mountain, 1806 feet high, 8 miles north-east of Langholm, Dumfriesshire.

HARTSHAW, site of old hunting-seat in Clackmannan parish, Clackmannanshire.

HARTSIDE, burn and district in Wandell parish, Lanarkshire.

HART'S LEAP, hill-pass, 2J miles south-east of St. Mary's Loch, Selkirkshire.

HARTWOOD, seat in West Calder parish, Edinburghshire.

HARVIESTON, seat in Borthwick parish, Edinburghshire.

HARVIESTON, seat in Tillicoultry parish, Clackmannanshire.

HASCUSSAY, island, 2 miles long, be-tween Yell and Fetlar, Shetland.

HASKEVAL, mountain, 2667 feet high, in Rum Island, Inner Hebrides.

HASSENDEAN, railway station, beautiful dell, and ancient parish, 4 miles north-east of Hawick, Roxburghshire. The parish, known also as Hazendean and Haltstanedean, had a Norman church, a monastic cell, and a peel tower, all now extinct ; figures conspicuously in both history and song ; and was annexed mainly to Minto and partly to Wilton and Roberton.

HATHERSTANE, mountain, on mutual border of Lamington and Culter parishes, Lanarkshire.

HATTON, hamlet in Cruden parish, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Ellon, and a public school with about 151 scholars.

HATTON, seat in Turriff parish, Aberdeenshire.

HATTON, hill and ruined castle in Newtyle parish, Forfarshire.

HATTON, seat in Marykirk parish, Kincardineshire.

HATTON, seat in Ratho parish, Edinburghshire.

HATTONDEN, place, with spinning-mills, in Kinnell parish, Forfarshire.

HATTON (WESTER), hamlet, with public school, in Belhelvie parish, Aberdeenshire.

HAUGH, village in Mauchline parish, Ayrshire.

HAUGH, place, with factories, in Markinch parish, Fife.

HAUGH, rich mineral tract in Abbey-Paisley parish, Renfrewshire.

HAUGH-HEAD, village in Campsie parish, Stirlingshire, under Glasgow. It has a post office

HAUGH-HEAD, seat in Eckford parish, Roxburghshire.

HAUGH OF URR, village, 4 miles north-east of Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire. It has a post office under Dalbeattie. Pop. 207.

HAUGHS, small bay in Benholm parish, Kincardineshire.

HAUGHSHAW, hills in Douglas parish, Lanarkshire.

HAUGHS OF CROMDALE, battlefield of 1690 on the Spey, 3J miles north-east of Grantown, Elginshire.

HAUGHTON, seat in Alford parish, Aberdeenshire.

HAUSTER, stream, running 8 miles north-eastward to Wick rivulet at 1^ mile west of Wick town, Caithness.

HAVERA.

HAVERSAY, pastoral islet in Bracadale parish, Isle of Skye.

HAWICK, town and parish in south-west of Roxburghshire. The town stands on the Teviot, 50 miles by road, but 53 by rail way, south-east-by-south of Edinburgh ; occupies a fine piece of valley, closely environed by pleasant hills ; appears first on record in 1214, but may have been of much earlier date; figured often and strongly in the events of Border warfare and foray; was several times burnt by English armies ; contained, for a long time, such a number of strongly constructed houses as to possess much military strength ; passed, after the national union, into a decayed and mean condition ; rose, from about 1791 to a recent period, into great prosperity and size as a seat of woollen manufacture ; ranks now as a burgh, uniting with Galashiels and Selkirk in sending a member to Parliament ; includes within its burgh boundaries Hawick-proper on the right bank of the Teviot, and Wilton suburb on the left bank ; publishes 2 weekly newspapers ; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 5 banking offices, 4 hotels, a modernized strong ancient fort-alice forming part of one of the hotels, a large circular earthen mound serving anciently as a seat of justice, a renovated town hall, 14 or more large factories, a number of handsome private and semi-public buildings, extensive well-contrived drainage works commenced in 1876, a new large water supply at a cost of about 16,000 in 1880, a spacious ornate modern parochial church, 2 other Established churches, 1 of them erected in 1880, a steepled Free church of 1869, 2 other Free churches, 3 United Presbyterian churches, Evangelical Union, Baptist, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches, 6 public schools, and a number of local institutions. Real property of the burgh in 1880-81, 54,307. Pop., of Hawick-proper, 11,336 ; of the entire burgh, 16,184. The parish is about 6 miles long, and from 2 to 3 miles broad, and comprises 6112 acres. Real property of landward part in 1880-81, 4904. Pop., quoad civilia, 11,758 ; quoad sacra, 6218. A rich belt of valley extends along the Teviot ; the deep narrow vale of Slitrig rivulet descends to that at the town ; and the rest of the surface is hilly, and has summits upwards of 800 feet high. Chief objects are Branxholm House and Goldielands Tower. There are 12 schools for 2606 scholars, and 2 of the schools and 3 enlargements for 1427 are new.


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