PORTAVAIDE, place, with public school, in Kilfinan parish, Argyleshire.

PORT BANNATYNE.

PORT CHAISTEL, creek, overhung by ruined old castle, in Tarbat parish, north-east extremity of Koss-shire.

PORT CHARLOTTE, village on west coast of Lochindaal, opposite Laggan Point, in Islay Island, Argyleshire. It is entirely modern, and has a post office under Greenock, an inn, and a distillery. Pop. 502.

PORT-CORKRIE, small bay, 5 miles north-west of Mull of Galloway, Wigtonshire.

PORT-CRINAN.

PORT-CUMMING.

PORT-DOWNIE, basin at west end of Union Canal, in Falkirk parish, Stirlingshire.

PORT-DUNDAS, northern suburb of Glasgow. It stands on tabular hill-ridge, around harbour of Forth and Clyde and Monkland canals; is chiefly a seat of commerce and manufacture ; contains large warehouses, large granaries, and an Established church ; and presents the curious appearance of lofty buildings and lines of shipping on crown of steep ascent, CO or 80 feet above adjacent levels. Pop. 4704.

PORT-EASY, fishing town, nearly 2 miles east of Buckie, Banffshire. It has a Methodist chapel. Pop. 1061.

PORT-EDGAR, small harbour, f mile west of Queensferry, Linlithgowshire.

PORT-EGLINTON, terminal basin of Glasgow and Johnstone Canal, on south side of Glasgow.

PORT-ELLEN, seaport village, 6 miles north-east of Mull of Oa, in Islay Island, Axgyleshire. It is modern and well-built, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Greenock, a good harbour with lighthouse, a neat inn, a large distillery, and a public school with about 135 scholars. Pop. 974.

PORT-ELPHINSTONE, suburb of Inverury, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Inverury, and a public school with about 147 scholars. Pop. 473.

PORT-ERROL, village in Cruden parish, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Ellon. Pop. 493.

PORTERSTOWN, place, with limeworks, in Keir parish, Dumfriesshire.

PORT-GILL, bay, 8 miles south-south-east of Portpatrick, Wigtonshire.

PORT-GLASGOW, town and parish on north coast of Renfrewshire. The town stands on the Clyde, 2| miles east-south-east of Greenock ; occupies a belt of low flat ground about 300 yards broad, immediately overhung by hills from 561 to 794 feet high; was founded in 1668 to serve as the port of Glasgow ; sustained a check to rapidly increasing importance by the deepening of the river up to the city ; comprises regularly-aligned, well-edificed streets, around a capacious, costly, artificial harbour ; is a royal burgh, uniting with Dumbarton, Renfrew, Rutherglen, and Kilmarnock in sending a member to Parliament ; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 3 banking offices, a weekly newspaper office, 3 hotels, a fine steepled town hall, water supply so greatly enlarged in 1880 as to give great facility for erection of public works, 2 Established churches, 3 Free churches, 2 United Presbyterian churches, Episcopalian and Roman Catholic churches, a public library, a new public school with capacity for 700 scholars, and 7 other schools with capacity for 1165. Real property in 1880-81, 47,644. Pop. 13,224. The parish excludes a western part of the town, measures about li mile by 1, and comprises 944 acres. Real property of landward part in 1880-81, 712. Pop. of the whole, quoad civilia, 10,912 ; quoad sacra, 7556. The surface com-prises prolongation of the low flat tract contiguous to the Clyde, a rapid ascent of green and wooded hill thence to the middle, and a tabular tract thence to the southern boundary. The chief object outside of the town is Newark Castle.

PORT-GORDON, seaport village, 2 miles south-west of Buckie, Banffshire. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Fochabers, a banking office, and a tolerably good harbour. Pop. 732.

PORT-GOWER, fishing village, 2J miles south-west of Helmsdale, Sutherland. It has an inn, a small harbour, and a public school.

PORT HOPETOUN, terminal basin of Union Canal, in west of Edinburgh.

PORTINCROSS, sea-cliff, 300 feet high, and about a mile long, at north side of entrance of Ayr Bay, Ayrshire. A ruined but tolerably entire small fortalice of 13th century stands at its base.

PORTINELLAN, place, about 2J miles west of Callander, Perthshire. It is the best starting-place for ascending Benledi.

PORTINLICK, ferry onKyle of Sutherland, north-west of Bonar-Bridge, Sutherland.

PORTKALE, small bay, \\ mile north-north-west of Portpatrick, "VVigtonshire.

PORT-KINGSTON.

PORT-KNOCKIE.

PORTLETHEN, village and quoad sacra parish in north-east of Kincardineshire. The village stands on the coast, 8 miles north-north-east of Stonehaven, and has a railway station, a church with 460 sittings, and a public school with about 234 scholars. Pop. 298. The parish was constituted in 1856. Pop. 1610.

PORTLICH, village on coast of Kilmuir-Easter parish, Ross-shire.

PORT-LOGAN, seaport village, 11 miles south-south-east of Portpatrick, Wigtonshire. It has a post office designated of Wigtonshire, and a public school with about 181 scholars.

PORTMAHOMACK, seaport village on Tarbatness, 11 miles east-north-east of Tain, Ross-shire. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Ross-shire, 2 inns, and a pier 420 feet long. Pop. 293.