BACKIES, hunting-lodge in Glenbucket parish, Aberdeen shire.
BACKLESS, hill in Watten parish, Caithness.
BACKMUIR, village in Liff parish, south-west border of Forfarshire.
BACKMUIR, village in Largo parish, Fife.
BACKWATER, hamlet, and affluent of the Isla, in Lintrathen parish, Forfarshire. The hamlet has a public school.
BADCALL, rivulet, bay, and hamlet, in Edderachyllis parish, Sutherland. The rivulet receives the outflow of a chain of small trouting lakes, and runs 6 miles westward to the bay; the bay extends about 1| mile to the sea, and is sheltered at its mouth by a group of islets ; and the hamlet lies at the bay's head, and has the parochial church, and a public school with about 69 scholars.
BADDAGYIE, lake in Coigach district, Cromartyshire.
BADEN, lake in upper part of Kildonan parish, Sutherland.
BADENOCH, district in south-east of Inverness-shire. It comprises the basin of the Spey, from the sources of that river to vicinity of Upper Craigellachie ; measures about 35 miles in length and 28 miles in breadth ; is bounded on one side by summits of the Central Grampians, on the other side by the summits of the Monadhleadh Mountains ; and, excepting tracts adjacent to the river, exhibits everywhere a wildly Highland character. It belonged anciently to the Comyns, and passed, in the time of Robert n., to the * Wolf of Badenoch,' the Earl of Buchan.
BADENSCOTH, village in Auchterless parish, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Aberdeen, a banking office, and 2 public schools, male and female, with about 79 and 76 scholars.
BADENTOY, place, with public school, in Banchory-Devenick parish, Kincardineshire.
BADENYON, quondam old castle, celebrated in the song of ' John o' Badenyon, ' in Glenbucket parish, Aberdeenshire.
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BAHIA, sea-loch in north-east of Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.
BAIDLAND, hill in Dairy parish, Ayrshire.
BAIKIE, quondam noble castle in Airlie parish, Forfarshire.
BAILEUR, place on south-east side, near mouth of Loch Killisport, Argyleshire.
BAILLIESTON, town and quoad sacra parish in the north of Lanarkshire. The town stands 6| miles east of Glasgow, and has a post office under Glasgow, a railway station, and Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Episcopalian churches. Pop. 2927. The quoad sacra parish bears the alternative name of Crosshill. Pop. 3477.
BAINSFORD, suburb of Falkirk, Stirlingshire. It stands on the Forth and Clyde canal, about a mile north of Falkirk proper ; connects, in street continuity, with Grahamstown ; and has a Free church of 1880, and industrial connection with Carron ironworks.
BALADO, railway station, 3 miles east of Crook of Devon, Kinross-shire.
BALAKLAVA, village a little west of Johnstone, Renfrewshire. It was founded in 1856 in connection with ironstone mines.
BALALLAN, village in Lochs parish, Lewis, Outer Hebrides. Pop. 535.
BALAS, seat in Cupar parish, Fife.
BALBARDIE, seat and lake near Bathgate, Linlithgowshire.
BALBEGGIE, village, 4J miles north-east of Perth. It has a post office under Perth, a United Presbyterian church, and a public school with about 51 scholars.
BALBEGNO, castle of 1509, near Fettercairn, Kincardineshire.
BALBEUCHLY, estate in Auchterhouse parish, Forfarshire.
BALBIRNIE, village and seat near Markinch, Fife. The village is called Balbirnie Mills.
BALBIRNIE, village in Ruthven parish, Forfarshire.
BALBITHAN, old seat inKeithhall parish, Aberdeenshire. It figures in the history of the Marquis of Montrose, and in that of the fugitives from Culloden field.
BALBLAIR, place in Kilmorack parish, Inverness-shire. It has a public school with about 105 scholars.
BALBLAIR, place in Fodderty parish, Ross-shire.
BALBLAIR, lofty terrace, about a mile west of Nairn. It was the camping-place of the royal army on the eve of the battle of Culloden.
BALBROGIE, village in Coupar-Angus parish, Perthshire.
BALBUNNOCK, village in Longforgan parish, Perthshire.
BALCARRES, seat of Sir Coutts T. Lindsay, Bart., in Kilconquhar parish, Fife. It is a renovated Tudor edifice, and it belonged to the ancestors of the Earl of Crawford, and gives him the titles of baron and earl.
BALCARRY, seat and headland in Rerrick parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
BALCASKIE, seat of Sir Robert Au-struther, Bart., 2 miles north-west of Pittenweem, Fife.
BALCASTLE, hamlet in Slamannan parish, Stirlingshire.
BALCASTLE, ancient Caledonian fort, near Kilsyth, Stirlingshire.
BALCHRISTIE, seat on site of ancient Culdee cell, near Colinsburgh, Fife.
BALCLADDICH, bay, 6J miles north-west of Lochinver, Sutherland.
BALCLUTHA,place mentioned in Ossian, supposed to be Dumbarton rock or castle.
BALCOMIE, quondam seat of the Earls of Kellie, near Grail, Fife. It was once very large, but became curtailed into a farmhouse.
