ROSENESS, promontory on north side of Holm Sound, 9 miles south-south-east of Kirkwall, Orkney.
ROSETTA, seat about a mile north of Peebles.
ROSEWELL, town about a mile south of Hawthornden railway station in Edinburghshire. It adjoins collieries, and has a post office, with money order department, designated of Mid-Lothian, a quoad sacra parochial church of 1872, and a public school with about 215 scholars. Pop. of town, 1394 ; of quoad sacra parish, 2129.
ROSHK, lake in Strathbran, Ross-shire.
ROSKIE, lake in north-east of Port-of-Monteith parish, Perthshire.
ROSLIN, village, \ mile north of North Esk river, and 8 miles by road, but 12 by railway, south of Edinburgh. It adjoins a picturesque reach of the North Esk's ravine ; it draws much attention for sake of neighbouring ancient church and ancient castle ; it gives name to three victories in one day achieved in its vicinity in 1303 by the Scotch over the English ; it ranked in 15th century as the third largest town in the Lothians, and witnessed then a great concourse of noble visitors to the neighbouring ancient castle ; it now presents a modern, pleasant, semi-rural appearance ; it communicates with south bank of the Esk by a long iron girder-bridge of 1871 ; it has a post office designated of Mid-Lothian, a railway station, 2 hotels, a quoad sacra parochial church, a Free church of 1881, and a public school with about 171 scholars ; and it gives the title of earl, in the form of Rosslyn, to the family of St. Clair-Erskine. Pop. 611. The ancient church, popularly called Rosslyn Chapel, stands about a furlong south-east of the village ; was founded in 1446, for a provost and six prebendaries, by William St. Clair, third Earl of Orkney ; was designed to be cruciform, but was never completed, and consists of only a chancel and part of a transept, with subjacent burial-vault ; exhibits peculiar features of pointed architecture, and a richly ornate interior ; is celebrated, connectedly with a superstition about the St. Clairs, in Sir Walter Scott's ballad of ' Rosabelle ; ' and serves now, in the summer months, as an Episcopalian church. Roslin Castle stands about 200 yards from the church; crowns an insulated precipitous rock rising from the bed of the Esk; surmounts a triple tier of vaults ; and comprises an old ruin of 200 feet by 90, and a comparatively modern pile. Pop. of quoad sacra parish, 1476.
ROSLINLEE.
ROSS, suburb of Comrie, Perthshire.
ROSS, fishing village, 2 miles west-by-south of Ayton, Berwickshire. Pop. with Burnmouth, 371.
ROSS, ancient seat of junior member of noble family of Hamilton, in Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire.
ROSS, peninsular tract, 14 miles long, in south-west of Mull Island, extending to within a mile of lona, in Argyleshire.
ROSS, ancient parish, comprehending all Mull Island south of Aros and LochnaKeal, in Argyleshire.
ROSS, bay and hill in Borgue parish, Kirkcudbrightshire .
ROSSACHY, burn, running to the Dee in Aboyne parish, Aberdeenshire.
ROSS-ARDEN, small headland on west side of Loch Lomond, 5J miles south of Luss.
ROSSDHU, seat of Sir James Col-quhoun, Bart., on west side of Loch Lomond, 2 miles south of Luss.
ROSS (EASTER).
ROSSEND, castellated seat, partly of 15th century and partly modern, at west end of Burntisland, Fife.
ROSSFINLAS, small headland on west side of Loch Lomond, south of Luss.
