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PETERHEAD (EAST), quoad sacra parish, with church, in Peterhead parish, Aberdeenshire. Pop. 3926.

PETERHILL, summit of hill in Birse parish, Aberdeenshire.

PETER (ST.), quoad sacra parish, with Established and Free churches, in Glasgow. Pop. 1444.

PETER (ST.), ancient chapelry in Lady parish, Sanday Island, Orkney.

PETER (ST.), section of South Ronald-shay parish, with church in northern part of South Ronaldshay Island, Orkney.

PETER'S WELL (ST.), copious spring in Mouswald parish, Dumfriesshire.

PETERTOWN, place, with public school, in Orphir parish, Orkney.

PETERUGIE, parish, disjoined from Peterhead in 1620, and now called Longside, in Aberdeenshire.

PETTIE.

PETTINAIN, hamlet and parish in upper ward of Lanarkshire, The hamlet lies near the Clyde, 5 miles east-south-east of Lanark, and has a post office under Lanark, a small church, and a public school with capacity for 66 scholars. The parish measures about 3 miles by 2, and comprises 3900 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 4568. Pop. 360. The surface is partly very low flat land adjacent to the Clyde, and partly a gentle unequal acclivity up to a height of about 500 feet above the Clyde's level. The only mansion is Sir Wyndham Anstruther's seat of Westraw.

PETTY, village in Inverness-shire, and parish partly also in Nairnshire. The village stands on Moray Firth, 7 miles north-east of Inverness, and has a post office under Inverness, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 70 scholars. The parish contains also Connage village and the Stuarton section of Campbelton. Its length is about 9 miles ; its breadth between 2 and 3 miles ; its area 9455 acres in Inverness-shire, and 321 in Nairnshire. Real property in 1880-81, 8100 and 203. Pop. 1488 and 43. The surface rises like a broken wave from the coast, then sinks into a vale of moss land, then ascends to Culloden moor. The seats are Castle-Stuart, Gollanfield, and Flemington ; and the antiquities are several Caledonian stone circles, and two medieval judicial moats. A United Presbyterian church is at Campbelton ; and 2 new public schools with capacity for 250 scholars are in the parish.

PETTYCUR, harbour with good quay, ^ mile south-by-west of Kinghorn, Fife.

PETYN, ancient parish, now part of Petty, Inverness-shire.

PHANTASSIE, estate in Prestonkirk parish, Hacldingtonshire.

PHARAY (HOLM OF), pastoral islet adjacent to north end of North Pharay, Orkney.

PHARAY (NORTH), island, 1 mile west of Eday, Orkney. It is about 2 miles long, and has a public school. Pop. 72.

PHARAY (SOUTH), island, about 2 miles long, adjacent to east side of Hoy, Orkney. Pop. 68.

PHESDO, seat, 3 miles north-north-west of Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire.

PHILIP, burn, running eastward to the Monynut, on boundary between Haddingtonshire and Berwickshire.

PHILIPHAUGH, alluvial plain, scene of Sir David Leslie's victory over Marquis of Montrose in 1645, from l| to 3 miles south-west of Selkirk. It contains a monument of the victory, and the modern mansion of Philiphaugh Castle.

PHILIPSTON, village, 2 miles north-west of Winchburgh, Linlithgowsbire.

PHILLANS (ST.), ancient parish, now called Forgan, on north border of Fife. 2A


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