PROSPECT HILL, part of Mount Florida suburb in northern vicinity of Glasgow.

PROTRACT, seat on the Nith in vicinity of Holywood village, Dumfriesshire.

PROTSTONHILL, place, with public school, in Gamrie parish, Banffshire.

PROUDFOOT, promontory in Wick parish, Caithness.

PROVANMILL, village, 2* miles north-east of Glasgow.

PUBILL, place, with public school, in Glenlyon, Perthshire.

PUDDLE, burn, running to the Tyne, on west border of Haddingtonshire.

PULPIT-ROCK, recess, with excavation, on rock-face, serving the purpose of a church, on west side near head of Loch Lomond.

PULROSSIE, estate in Dornoch parish, Sutherland.

PULTENEYTOWN, modern extension and main portion of Wick town, Caithness. It stands on south bank of Wick river, while Wick-proper and Louisburgh stand on north bank. It is all regularly-aligned and pleasant, while they are irregularly-aligned and unpleasant ; it includes the town's harbour, seat of manufactures, and centre of trade ; and while sharing the benefits of their public buildings and institutions, it has within itself a post office with money order department under Wick, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches, a large academy, and 2 large primary public schools. Pop. 4884.

PUMPHERSTON, quondam old castle in Mid-Calder parish, Edinburgh shire.

PURDOVAN, seat, 2| miles east of Linlithgow.

PURVESHALL, seat in Eccles parish, Berwickshire.

PYKE-STANE.

PYKETHOWE, mountain on mutual border of Dumfriesshire and Boxburgh-shire, 8 miles north of Langholm.

QUAICH.

QUAIR, rivulet, running about 7 miles northward to the Tweed in vicinity of Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.

QUANTERNESS, headland, with interesting Picts' house, 2 miles north-west of Kirkwall, Orkney.

QUARFF, ancient parish and modern quoad sacra parish in south of Shetland. The ancient parish extends across Mainland from sea to sea, between Lerwick and Dunrossness parishes ; gives name to two bays, East and West, at its extremities ; comprises a valley about 2 miles long and J mile broad, flanked on both sides by pastoral hills ; and is now annexed to Bressay. The quoad sacra parish comprises Quarff-proper and Burra, the latter consisting of islands to the west ; was constituted by ecclesiastical authority in 1833, and re-constituted by civil authority at a later date; contains a post office of Burra under Lerwick; and has 2 parochial churches, a United Presbyterian church, and a Baptist chapel.

QUARREL, burn in Dollar parish, Clackm annanshire .

QUARREL, knoll, said to have been a place of Pictavian military games, in Abernethy parish, Perthshire.

QUARRELTON, collier village in southern vicinity of Johnstone, Renfrewshire. It has a public school with about 215 scholars.

QUARRELWOOD, site of quondam notable Reformed Presbyterian church, in Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfriesshire.

QUARROLSHORE, village, now called Carronshore, in Larbert parish, Stirlingshire.

QUARRYHILL, huge mass of conglomerate rock in western vicinity of Melrose, Roxburghshire.

QUARRYPARK, place, with flagstone quarries, in Kescobie parish, Forfarshire.

QUARRYWOOD, place, with very fine durable sandstone quarries, in New Spynie parish, Elginshire. It has a post office under Elgin.

QUARTER, village, 3 miles south of Hamilton, Lanarkshire. It adjoins extensive collieries, and has a post office under Hamilton, extensive ironworks, a chapel-of-ease, and a public school with about 200 scholars.

QUARTER, seat 1J mile north-west of Denny, Stirlingshire.

QUARTER, seat, in Broughton parish, Peeblesshire.

QUARTER ROAD, railway station in vicinity of Quarter village, Lanarkshire.

QUEENISH, smaU village in Mull Is-land, Argyleshire.

QUEENSBERRY, mountain, culminating at 15 miles north of Dumfries. It projects from convergence of two ranges of Southern Highlands ; presents a bold acclivitous front overlooking all Southern Nithsdale and Annandale ; has a summit altitude of 2285 feet above sea-level ; and gave to a branch of the Douglas family the titles of earl in 1633, marquis in 1682, and duke in 1684. These titles became extinct in the direct line in 1810 ; and then those of earl and marquis went to Sir Charles Douglas of Kelhead, and that of duke went to the Duke of Buccleuch.

QUEENSBERRY, small watering-place in Cummertrees parish, Dumfriesshire.

QUEENSFERRY, town and parish on coast of Linlithgowshire. The town stands at terminus of short branch railway, amid charming environs, contiguous to contracted part of Firth of Forth, 9 miles west-north-west of Edinburgh ; got its name from being the place where Malcolm Canmore's queen made numerous passages between Edinburgh and Dunf ermline ; has always since her time, especially till the railway epoch, been a main ferry station on the Forth; adjoins the site which was selected for erection of the stupendous Forth railway bridge ; ranks as a royal burgh, uniting with Inverkeithing, Dunfermline, Culross, and Stirling in sending a member to Parliament ; presents an uninviting appearance, yet serves as a quiet watering-place ; and has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, a railway station, a banking office, a town hall with ancient steeple, remains of a Carmelite friary, Established and United Presbyterian churches, and a public school with about 200 scholars. Eeal property in 1880-81, 4642. Pop. 1676. The parish excludes part of the town, and comprises only 11 acres. Pop. 1064.