AULTROY, burn in Aboyne parish, Aberdeenshire.
AULTSIGH, rivulet, issuing from tarn on a shoulder of Mealfourvounie Mountain, and descending in cataracts and leaps to north-west side of Loch Ness, Inverness-
AUQUHIRIE, seat in Dunnottar parish, Kincardineshire.
AUSDALE, hamlet, 4 miles south-west of Berriedale, Caithness; and rivulet passing that hamlet and leaping into the sea over a lofty cliflf.
AUSKERRY, small island, 2| miles south of Stronsay, Orkney. A lighthouse is on it, with fixed light visible at the distance of 16 nautical miles. Pop. 8.
AVEN, lake and river in south-west extremity of Banff shire. The lake has an elevation of about 1800 feet above sea-level, and is immediately overhung by Cairngorm Mountains. The river issues from the lake, traverses for some distance an alpine glen, and runs altogether about 30 miles, chiefly northward, to the Spey at Ballindalloch.
AVICH, lake and stream in Dalavich old parish, Argyleshire. The lake commences 4 miles east of head of Loch Melfort ; measures about 3^ miles in length and 7 furlongs in width ; has fine ornature of outline, banks, and islets ; and is associated with 2 notable old Celtic poems. The stream issues from the lake, and runs about 2 miles to Loch Awe.
AVIEMORE, place, adjacent to Highland Railway, llf miles north-east of Kingussie, Inverness-shire. It has a station on the railway, and a post office designated of Inverness-shire, with money order and telegraph departments.
AVOCH, fishing town and parish in Ardmeanach district, Ross-shire. The town stands on a small bay of its own name, If mile south-west of Fortrose, and has pleasant environs, a post office, with money order department, under Inverness, an inn, a good pier, Established, Free, and Congregational churches, and a public school with about 105 scholars. Pop. 905. The parish is about 4 miles long and 2i miles broad. Real property in 1880-81, 7395. Pop. 1691. The surface is partly a gentle slope, partly a diversity of hill and dale, partly a portion of the Mullbuy. The seats are Avoch House and Rosehaugh ; and the antiquities are the ruined fortalice of Arkendeith, and the site of Avoch Castle, which belonged to successively the Earls of Ross and the Crown. There are 3 schools for 382 scholars, and 1 of them, for 160, is new.
AVOCHY, seat near Huntly, Aberdeenshire.
AVON, river, running about 18 miles eastward and north-eastward, partly be-tween Stirlingshire and Linlithgowshire, to Firth of Forth, at 2 miles west of fcorrowstounness.
AVON, river, running about 1G miles north-eastward and 5| north-westward to the Clyde, in vicinity of Hamilton, Lanarkshire It traverses first a moorish tract, next a beautiful diversified lowland tract, next a richly romantic dell.
AVONBANK, seat near Larkhall, Lanarkshire.
AVONBRIDGE, village on the Avon, 3 miles west-south-west of Slamannan, Stirlingshire. It has a railway station and a United Presbyterian church.
AVONDALE, parish, containing Strathaven town, on west border of Lanarkshire. Its length is about 14 miles, its breadth about 8 miles, its area 37,533 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 39,948. Pop., quoad civilia, 5466; quoad sacra, 3216. The area is pretty equally bisected by the Avon, and the lands comprise flat tracts on that river, rising grounds from both sides of these flats, and moorish eminences and mosses in the west. Several mansions are near Strathavon, and the ruined famous castle of Avondale is in it. There are 2 Established churches, a Free church, 3 United Presbyterian churches, and 6 schools for 855 scholars.
AVONDHU, head-stream of the river Forth.
AVONHEAD, village in New Monkland parish, Lanarkshire. It has a public school, with about 130 scholars. Pop. 435.
AVONHOLM, seat in Glassford parish, Lanarkshire.
AVONSUIDH, a seat of the Earl of Dunmore, in Harris, Outer Hebrides.
AVONTON, seat near Linlithgow.
AWE, small lake, 3 miles south of head of Loch Assynt, Sutherland. It lies among massive mountains, and contains wooded islets.
AWE, lake, river, and pass in central part of mainland of Argyleshire. The lake extends 24 miles north-north-east-ward to base of Bencruachan, has a mean breadth of not more than a mile, but expands towards the foot to a mean breadth of about 2 miles ; forms there 2 off-sets or horns, the one receiving the river Orchy, the other discharging the river Awe ; exhibits great variety of scenery, passing from plainness at the head to gorgeous grandeur at the foot ; looks, in its broadest parts, to be remarkably small, as compared with the magnitude and loftiness of the mountains overhanging it ; has everywhere, but especially toward the foot, much intricacy and ornature of shore line ; possesses much diversity and wealth of trout-fishing, all open to the public ; began, in the summer of 1876, to be traversed by a screw-steamer, in communication with public conveyances to its shores ; is now crossed near its foot by the Callander and Oban Railway, sweeping round to the gorge of Awe river; and has at its foot a railway station, a steamboat pier, and a new hotel. The river leaves the lake in calm current, enters a narrow, deep, stupendous gorge, traverses there a wildly broken, rocky bottom, and goes 4 miles north-westward, mostly in tumultuous rush, to Loch Etive at Bunawe. The pass occurs in the river's gorge ; is flanked at one part by a precipice 1308 feet high ; was formerly traversable there only by an almost mural ascent, commanded at the top by a fortalice, but is now facilitated by a bridge ; and was the scene of an exploit by Sir William Wallace, and a skirmish between King Robert Bruce and Macdougal of Lorn.
