SILVERBIT, seat near Hawick, Roxburghshire.
SILVER CASTLE, vestige of ancient fortification in Scone parish, Perthshire.
SILVERMILLS, old village, mile north of Edinburgh Castle. It had crown mills, erected in early part of 17th century, for reducing silver-ore brought from Linlithgowshire ; but it never acquired much importance, and it became engirt by northern part of New Town, and is now nearly obliterated.
SILVERMINE, extensive limework, 2 miles west-north-west of Bathgate, Linlithgowshire.
SILVER-ROCK, hill in Golspie parish, Sutherland.
SILVERTONHILL, small farm, with site of ancient residence of branch of the noble family of Hamilton, in Hamilton parish, Lanarkshire.
SILVERWELLS, farm, with spring long regarded as powerfully medicinal, in Turriff parish, Aberdeenshire.
SIMBISTER, fine modern seat in Whalsay Island, Shetland.
SIMPRIN, ancient parish, now part of Swinton, Berwickshire.
SINAVEY, copious pure spring in Mains parish, Forfarshire.
SINCLAIR, bay and ruined castle in Wick parish, Caithness. The bay opens on north side of Noss Head, at 4J miles north-east of "Wick town ; is nearly of half-moon form on chord of 5| miles ; lies so open to the ocean as to have been some-times mistaken by mariners for east entrance of Pentland Firth ; and bears the alternative names of Keiss Bay and Riess Bay. The castle stands adjacent to Girnigoe Castle, on the bay's south shore, about 1J mile west of Noss Head, has a grim appearance, and was a stronghold of the Earls of Caithness.
SINCLAIRSTON, hamlet in Ochiltree parish, Ayrshire.
SINCLAIRTON, northern suburb of Kirkcaldy, Fife. It was founded in 1766 ; it stands continuous with the older suburb of Dunnikier ; it and that suburb are reached from Kirkcaldy-proper by a steep ascent, and are therefore jointly called Pathhead ; and, besides sharing in the institutions bearing the name of Pathhead, it has a railway station, a banking office, a chapel-of-ease, a United Presbyterian church of 1881, and a public school with about 250 scholars.
SITHCHAILLINN.
SIX PLOUGHS, detached district of Methlick parish, Aberdeenshire.
SIX TOWNS, northern section of Birse parish, traversed by Birse burn and lying along the Dee, in Aberdeenshire.
SKA, islet adjacent to north end of Unst, in Shetland.
SKAE.
SKAILL, small bay near middle of west coast of Pomona, Orkney.
SKAILWICK, section of Westray Island, Orkney. It has a public school with about 96 scholars.
SKARR.
SKATERAW, village in Innerwick parish, Haddington shire.
SKATEROW.
SKAVAIG.
SKEA, hill-range, promontory, and group of skerries at south-west of Westray Island, Orkney.
SKEABOST, hamlet and seat in Snizort parish, Isle of Skye. The hamlet has a post office under Portree, and an inn.
SKEANASS, headland on east side of Northmaven parish, Shetland.
SKEEN.
SKELBO, public school and ruined ancient seat of Lords Dutfus on south side of Loch Fleet, in Dornoch parish, Sutherland.
SKELD, headland, two bays, and ancient burying-ground in Sandsting parish, Shetland.
SKELDAQUOY, headland on north side of west end of Holm Sound, Orkney.
SKELDON, seat on the Doon, in Dalrymple parish, Ayrshire.
SKELF, spire-peaked, precipitous hill, 1745 feet high, 9 miles west of Hawick, Roxburghshire.
SKELLATER, seat in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire.
SKELLYTON, colliery in Dalserf parish, Lanarkshire.
SKELMORLIE, seaside village and noble castle on north-west verge of Ayrshire. The village stands on Firth of Clyde, 5 miles north-by-west of Largs ; is a recently erected watering-place ; consists largely of handsome villas ; and has a post office, with money order department, under Greenock, a steamboat pier, a hydropathic establishment, and a quoad sacra parochial church. Pop. of village, 757; of quoad sacra parish, 953. The castle stands in southern vicinity of the village, is a seat of the Earl of Eglinton, was erected partly in 16th and 17th centuries, partly in 1858, and figures conspicuously amid dense old woods.
SKELWICK.
SKENE, hamlet and parish in south-east of Aberdeenshire. The hamlet lies 8 miles west-by-north of xYberdeen, and has a post office u'rifter Aberdeen, Established and Free churches, and a large public school. The parish measures 6f miles by 4J, and comprises 10,246 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 10,846. Pop. 1787. The surface is uneven, lies within the basin of the Dee, declines prevailingly to the south-east, and includes, on the west border, a lake about 3 miles in circuit, serving as a reservoir for mills and factories, and sending off a rivulet toward the Dee. Skene estate, with Skene House, had in 1880 an annual value of about 2820, and was then sold by the Earl of Fife to Mr. George Hamilton. Other seats are Easter Skene and Kirkville ; and chief antiquities are tumuli, Cale-donian stone circles, the line of a Roman road, and the site of a mediaeval watch-tower. A public school is at "\Vesthill.
