QUEENSFERRY (NORTH), village on Fife coast of Firth of Forth, directly opposite Queensferry, and 2 miles south of Inverkeithing. It is the ferry station for the passage from Queensferry ; it adjoins the site selected for north end of Forth railway bridge ; and it has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Fife, good ferry piers, fragments of a castle of James IV. 's time and of a dismantled fort of 1779, a quoad sacra parochial church, and a Free church evolved from a mission station in 1880. Pop. of village, 360; of quoad sacra parish, 416.
QUEENSHILL, estate in Tongland parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
QUEENSIDE, lake in Lochwinnoch parish, Renfrewshire.
QUEEN'S PARK, royal demesne contiguous to east side of Edinburgh. It extends eastward, south-eastward, and southward from Holyrood Palace ; measures nearly 5 miles in circuit ; comprehends Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Crag, part of St. Leonard's Hill, and a rich diversity of plain, slope, and ravine around them ; was long a natural forest ; underwent enclosure in time of James V. , rich ornamentation toward time of Queen Mary, and great desolation in time of Cromwell ; passed afterwards from the crown into such common uses as reduced much of its low-lying parts to a state of morass ; was repurchased by the crown in 1844 for 30,674 ; was then for a number of years raised to a condition of much embellishment, and acquired then a grand circular drive in winding line around its border, commanding splendid views, and open to the public.
QUEEN'S PARK, public park and suburb adjacent to Crosshill, in southern outskirts of Glasgow. The park comprises about 100 acres, is beautifully laid out, rises gently to a central roundish summit, and commands there a rich, extensive view. The suburb includes portions bearing other names, and contains three churches, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian. Pop. 4781.
QUEEN'S SEAT, peak of Carberry Hill, 3 miles south-east of Musselburgh, Edinburghshire.
QUEEN'S SEAT, rock on top of Cathkin Hill, 3J miles south-east of Glasgow.
QUEEN'S VIEW, commanding spot on east side of pass of Killiecrankie, Perthshire.
QUENDAL, bay and seat in Dunrossness parish, Shetland.
QUIECH, rivulet and lake describing segment of circle about 7 miles long to head of Glengarry, on north-west border of Inverness-shire.
QUIECH, rivulet, descending about 6 miles with great curve from Cairngorm mountain Benaven to the Dee, a little west of Castleton-Braemar, Aberdeenshire. Part of it is a powerful cataract over a series of precipitous ledges.
QUIECH, rivulet, running about 6 miles in semi-circular line to Loch Fraochy, and through that to the river Bran, at about 10 miles west-south-west of Dunkeld, Perthshire.
QUIECH, two rivulets, north and south, running about 6 miles eastward from the Ochil Hills to Loch Leven, the latter at Kinross town, the former at about 1J mile to the north.
QUIEN, lake on mutual border of Rothesay and Kingarth parishes, Isle of Bute.
QUINAG, precipitous pinnacled mountain ridge, with summit 2240 feet high, on north side of Loch Assynt, west of Sutherland.
QUINZIE, hill burn in Kilsyth parish, Stirlingshire.
QUIRAING, wild, romantic, elliptical hollow on summit of rugged, precipitous, basaltic mountain, 1\ miles west of Steinscholl, in Isle of Skye. It is entered by a steep narrow passage, overhung by pyramidal rock about 120 feet high ; it measures about 300 feet by 180 ; it is en-girt by mural rocks in separate pieces, chiefly with columnar and pyramidal forms ; and it commands through the clefts among the pieces very striking views southward in Skye, and eastward to the mountains of Ross and Sutherland.
QUIVOX (ST.), parish, containing AVallacetown and Content sections of Ayr, and post office village of Whitletts, in Ayrshire. Its length is 5 miles ; its greatest breadth 3 miles ; its area 4876 acres. Real property of landward part in 1879-80, 13,151. Pop., quoad civilia, 7352; quoad sacra, 1429. The river Ayr traces all the northern boundary. The land in the west and centre is low and level ; in the east is somewhat tumulated ; and everywhere, except under buildings or wood, is arable. Coal and excellent sandstone abound and are worked. Chief seats are Auchincruive and Craigie. The parochial church stands about 3 miles from the town, and a quoad sacra parochial church and seven other places of worship are in Wallacetown. Two public schools with each about 110 scholars are in the landward part, and others are in Wallacetown.
