PORMALUAG, landing-place on Lismore Island, Argyleshire.
PORT-MARY, creek and seat, 6 miles east of Kirkcudbright. The creek was Queen Mary's place of embarkation on her flight to England.
PORTMOAK, parish, containing Scotlandwell post office village and Kinnesswood village, on east side of Kinross-shire. Its length is 5 miles ; its greatest breadth 3f miles : its area 9957 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 11,238. Pop. 1042. The surface embraces more than half of the shores of Loch Leven, rises thence to the summit of "West Lomond Hill on the east, and the summit of Benartie on the south, makes some declension to the east, and presents aggregately a rich and beautiful diversity of feature. Coal, ironstone, and limestone are worked. The churches are Established, Free, and United Presbyterian. A monument to the native poet Michael Bruce is in the churchyard. The public school was recently enlarged, and has capacity for 160 scholars.
PORT MONTEITH.
PORTMONTGOMERY, coast village of 17th century, now represented by Portpatrick, Wigtonshire.
PORTMORE, bay, with good anchorage for large vessels, on west side of Loch Ryan, 7 A miles north-by-west of Stranraer, Wigtonshire.
PORTMORE, seat in Eddlestone parish, Peeblesshire.
PORTMOULIN, place near Corsewall lighthouse, at north-western extremity of Wigtonshire.
PORTMURRAY, small bay in northern vicinity of Portpatrick, Wigtonshire.
PORTNACROISH, village on north horn of Appin Bay, off east side of Loch Linnhe, Argyleshire. It has an inn and an Episcopalian church.
PORTNACULTER (RIVER OF), OikeU river and Dornoch Firth, forming boundary between Sutherland and Ross-shire.
PORTNACURRACH, creek on south-west coast of lona Island, Argyleshire.
PORTNAFEAMIN, good harbour, with quay, in Colonsay Island, Argyleshire.
PORTNAHAVEN, village and quoad sacra parish in south-west of Islay Island, Argyleshire. The village stands on the coast adjacent to Rhinns Point and Oversay lighthouse, and has a post office under Greenock, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 56 scholars. Pop. 361. The parish was constituted originally by ecclesiastical authority, and reconstituted in 1849 by civil authority. Pop. 860.
PORTNAMURLOCH, harbour on west side of Lismore Island, Argyleshire.
PORTNAUGHAN, bay on west coast of Kirkcolm parish, Wigtonshire.
PORTNELLAN, place on the Tummel, between Loch Tummel and Tummel-Bridge, Perthshire.
PORTNELLAN, place on left side of upper part of Loch Katrine, Perthshire.
PORTNESSOCK, bay on west coast of Kirkmaiden parish, Wigtonshire.
PORTNOCKIE, fishing town, 1J mile west-north-west of Cullen, Banffshire. It has a chapel-of-ease, a Free church, and a public school with about 120 scholars. Pop. 1102.
PORTOBELLO, town and quoad sacra parish on coast of Edinburghshire. The town stands 3 miles east of Edinburgh, occupies part of an extensive tract which was all a furzy waste till second half of last century ; took its name from a small house erected there by a sailor who had served at the capture of PortoBello in South America under Admiral Vernon ; was at first a small village, now represented by a dingy portion at its north-west end ; began about beginning of present century to assume the character of a watering-place and summer retreat for citizens of Edinburgh ; rose gradually in estimation till it had from 6000 to 8000 summer residents additional to its stated inhabitants ; continued in 1882 to acquire increasing popularity and increasing motives for extension ; covered then a gently-sloping site nearly a mile long, and about J mile broad ; consists chiefly of handsome streets and numerous beautiful detached villas ; ranks as a parliamentary burgh, uniting with Leith and Musselburgh in sending a member to Parliament ; commands delightful views of the waters and screens of the Firth of Forth ; adjoins at its south-east end the village of Joppa ; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, tramway communication with Edinburgh, 3 banking offices, 3 chief hotels, a weekly newspaper office, a very fine bathing beach, a handsome marine parade, a fine promenade pier 1250 feet long, constructed in 1871 at a cost of about 7000, a suite of hot and cold baths, a roller-skating rink of 1876, a neat recent town hall, used also as a mission church, a double-towered parochial church projected in 1877, a steepled Free church of that year erected at a cost of 9000, a spired United Presbyterian church of 1880 built at a cost of 8500, another United Presbyterian church of the same year, reconstructed from an old church, Congregational, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches, an ornamental cemetery of 1876, and a public school of that year erected at a cost of about 7000, and con-j taining accommodation for more than 600 scholars. Real property of the burgh in 1880-81, exclusive of railways and tram-ways, 46,927. Pop. 6794. The parish consists chiefly of part of Duddiugston, but includes small part of South Leith. Pop. 4504.
