ISLE MARTIN, small island, 5 miles north-west of Ullapool, Ross-shire.
ISLE OF BENLEVEN.
ISLE OF LOCHAR, hill-ridge, more than J mile long, consisting wholly of sea sand, in middle of Lochar Moss, Dumfriesshire.
ISLE OF MAY, island in mouth of Firth of Forth, 6 miles south-south-east of Crail, Fife. It measures about 1 mile in length and | mile in breadth; has precipitous coasts about 160 feet high, and a flattish surface; and contains a ruined ancient proiry, and two lighthouses with fixed lights visible at the distances of 16 and 22 nautical miles. Pop. 10.
ISLE OF WHITHORN, seaport village, 3 miles south-east of Whithorn, Wigtonshire. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Wigtonshire, a Free church, and vestiges of a very ancient small church. Pop. 343.
ISLE ORONSAY, place on coast of Skye, 6 miles south-west of Glenelg, Inverness-shire. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Broadford,. a small inn, and a fine natural harbour.
ISLE ORONSAY, islet adjacent to north coast of North Uist Island, Outer Hebrides. Pop. 25.
ISLE TANERAY, largest of Summer Islands, Ross-shire.
ISLE TOLL, place near Auldgirth railway station, Dumfriesshire. It has a post office under Dumfries.
ISSAY, island in Dunvegan Bay, Isle of Skye.
ITHAN.
ITLAW, place in Alvah parish, Banffshire. It has a post office under Banff.
IVYBANK, seat in Nairn parish, Nairnshire.
JACKSON, hill in St. Cyrus parish, Kincardineshire.
JACKTON, village in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire.
JAMES (ST.), ancient parish, now annexed to Kelso, Roxburghshire.
JAMES (ST.), parish, with Established and Free churches, in east of Glasgow. Pop., quoad sacra, 5662.
JAMES (ST.), quoad sacra parish on the Clyde at and around Clydebank.
JAMES (ST.), Forfarshire.
JAMESTON, village in Contin parish, Ross-shire.
JAMESTON, village, 9 miles north-west of Langholm, Dumfriesshire.
JAMESTOWN, town and quoad sacra parish in Dumbartonshire. The town stands in upper part of Vale of Leven, mile south-south-east of Balloch, and has a post office designated of Dumbartonshire, a railway station, extensive print-works, a steepled church of 1869, and a public school with about 388 scholars. Pop. of the town, 2170; of the quoad sacra parish, 2925.
JAMIMA.
JANEFIELD, seat in Kirkcudbright , parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
JANETOWN, village on Loch Carron, 4 miles north-east of Strome Ferry, Ross-shire. _ It has a good inn, and is the parochial centre of Lochcarron parish.
JANETSTOWN, hamlet in Thurso parish, Caithness. It has a post office under Thurso, and a public school with about 80 scholars.
JARDINE HALL, seat of Sir Alexander Jardine, Bart., on the river Annan, 4J miles north-north-west of Lockerby, Dumfriesshire.
JEANTOWN.
JED, small river of Roxburghshire. It rises on one of the central Cheviots, and runs about 18 miles northward to the Teviot at 2f miles north of Jedburgh.
JEDBURGH, town and parish in Roxburghshire. The town stands on Jed river, midway between Hawick and Kelso, 46 miles by road, but 56 by railway, south-east of Edinburgh ; dates from early part of 9th century ; had a great ancient castle, both a frequent residence of the Scoto-Saxon kings and a powerful Border fortalice ; contained or commanded numerous peel to wei's and camps for co-operating with the castle against invaders; figured both near and far by the action of its townsmen in many a Border conflict; suffered devastation several times by the English, but always recovered or increased its force; glided toward decay in the times subsequent to the National Union ; rose into modern prosperity partly by adoption of woollen manufacture, partly by other causes ; ranks now as the political capital of Roxburghshire and the seat of justiciary courts for the south-eastern counties ; unites with Lauder, Haddington, Dunbar, and North Berwick in sending a member to Parliament; publishes 2 weekly newspapers ; and has a head post office with all departments, a terminal railway station, 5 banking offices, 2 hotels, a county hall, a county prison, a large well-preserved portion of an ancient abbey, a parochial church, a Free church, 2 United Presbyterian churches, Evangelical Union, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches, a large public school, and a museum. Its site is a skirt of the Dunian, adjoining a low dell of the Jed, between bold hill-masses and a rich expanse of valley south-ward to the Cheviots. Its principal street ascends about mile to the aggregate elevation of 170 feet, and is intersected near the middle by a spacious market-place. Its houses show much variety, from ancient to new, and from mean to elegant ; and one of them, in a back street, is a large, strong, three-storey edifice, which was occupied for a short time by Queen Mary. The county hall adjoins the market-place, and is a neat large structure of 1812. The county prison stands at the town head, occupies the site of the ancient castle, and is a massive, castellated, conspicuous edifice of 1823. The abbey overlooks the Jed's dell ; was founded by David I. for canons-regular; had extensive buildings, great wealth, and powerful influence ; is now represented by the west front, the central tower, the north transept, most of the nave, and part of the choir of its church ; and these recently underwent interior clearance and renovation, and possess strong interest for antiquaries and artists. The parochial church was erected in 1872-75, at a cost of about 11,000, and is cruciform, steepled, and early pointed. The school board resolved in 1880 to take down the Grammar School, and to erect a new school and offices on its site. Real property of the town in 1880-81, 12,877. Pop. 3402. The parish contains also the villages of Bongate, Bonjedward, Lanton, and Ulston ; and it consists of two sections, separated about a mile from each other by a wing of Oxnam. Its length, measured across that wing, is 10^ miles ; its greatest breadth is 4f miles ; and its area is 22,535 acres. Real property of landward part in 1880-81, 25,811. Pop. of the whole, quoad civilia, 5147; quoad sacra, 4917. The southern part is hilly and mountainous ; the middle parts are rich valley, flanked by rising-grounds, with many intersecting ravines ; and the northern part is a diversity of hill and dale. The seats are Hartrigge, Jedfoot, Jerdonfield, Langlee, Bonjedward, Gilliestongues, Glenburn, Lintalee, Hundalee, Hunthill, Jedbank, Scaurs, Samieston, and Edgerston ; chief antiquities are Ferniehirst Castle, Lanton and Timpandean Towers, a reach of Roman road, a Roman camp, a fine circular camp, traces of four other ancient camps, and sites of eight Border peels ; and curious objects are three caves and two great oaks. A quoad sacra parochial church is at Edgerston. Three schools, all new, are in the land-ward part, and have capacity for 240 scholars.
