SOULSEAT.
SOURIN, hamlet in Rousay Island, Orkney. It has a post office under Rousay, and a public school with about 94 scholars.
SOUTHANNAN, estate, with mined mansion of time of James VI. , in West Kilbride parish, Ayrshire.
SOUTHBARR, seat in Inchinnan parish, Renfrewshire.
SOUTH BRAE, western section of Campsie parish, Stirlingshire.
SOUTH CHURCH.
SOUTHDEAN, parish, with church 7 miles south-south-west of Jedburgh, Roxburghshire. It has a post office under Hawick. Its length is 9| miles ; its greatest breadth 6 miles ; its area 27,880 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 11, 507. Pop. , quoad civilia, 724 ; quoad sacra, 641. The surface extends from watershed of the Cheviots to within 2J miles of Jedburgh, and is mostly drained by Jed river. The southern section is mountainous, and has summits from 1802 to 1964 feet high. The northern section also contains much upland, but has about 3000 acres in tillage, and about 500 under wood. The seats are Wolflee, Abbotrule, and Glendouglas ; and the antiquities are sites of cairns and ancient camps, and ruins of peel towers. A Free church is at "Wolflee, and a public school with about 82 scholars is near the parochial church.
SOUTHEND, parish, comprehending southern extremity of Kintyre and neighbouring islands of Sanda and Sheep, in Argyleshire. It has a post office under Campbelton. Its length is 11 miles ; its greatest breadth 5 miles ; its area 30,801 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 14,168. Pop. 955. The mainland coast measures about 19 miles ; is chiefly sandy in the east, but rocky, bold, and high in the south-west and west ; includes Mull of Kintyre ; and, especially at Keil and Dunaverty, abounds with caves. The interior contains the conspicuous mountain of Knockmoy, and exhibits elsewhere much diversity of hills, rising-grounds, hollows, and vales. Chief residences are Ballyshear, Keil, Carskey, and Levenstrath ; and chief antiquities are obelisks, Scandinavian forts, vestiges of Dunaverty Castle, and ruins or traces of three ancient churches. The present churches are Established and United Presbyterian; and there are 2 schools with accommodation for 148 scholars.
SOUTHEND, curious natural harbour, with sides, quay, and breakwater, near Lag, on south coast of Arran Island, Buteshire.
SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS, broad band of hills and mountains, extending west-south-westward from coast of Berwickshire around St. Abb's Head to coast of Ayrshire opposite Ailsa Craig. They stand partly in ranges, but chiefly in groups ; they have, in their middle parts, many summits from 2000 to 2651 feet high ; and they are so far compact as to be divided by only three lines of railway or good road communication through them, traced by Gala, Evan, and Nith rivers.
SOUTH ESK, etc.
SOUTHFIELD, seat in Liberton parish, Edmburghshire.
SOUTHFIELD, seat in Mearns parish, Renfrewshire.
SOUTHFIELD, seat in Auchtermuchty parish, Fife.
SOUTHFIELD, seat, converted into farm-house, in Gladsmuir parish, Haddingtonshire.
SOUTHFIELD, village in Lesmahagow parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 467.
SOUTHFIELD, village in Dairy parish, Ayrshire.
SOUTHFIELD, village in Slamannan parish, Stirlingshire. Pop. 340.
SOUTHFIELD, small modern suburb of Stirling, partly on scene of skirmish on eve of famous battle of Bannockburn.
SOUTHHALL, seat, Free church, and public school on Kyles of Bute, about a mile west of mouth of Loch Striven, Argyleshire.
SOUTHMUIR, section or suburb of Kirriemuir, Forfarshire. Pop. 1453.
SOUTH RONALDSHAY, etc.
SOUTHWICK, ancient parish, now part of Colvend, Kirkcudbrightshire. It has a post office under Dumfries, and a railway station at 7| miles east of Castle-Douglas.
SOUTRA, ancient parish in Haddingtonshire, now united to contiguous parish of Fala in Edmburghshire. Soutra Hill, 1209 feet high, at 2 miles south-east of Fala village, commands a splendid view over the Lothians and Fife, and had anciently a village with famous hospital founded by Malcolm IV.
SOY, quondam lake adjacent to Portsoy, in Banffshire. It gave name to Portsoy, but has been reduced to the limits of a mill pond.
SOYA, island off mouth of Loch Inver, at south-west corner of Sutherland.
SPALANDER, lake in Kirkmichael parish, Ayrshire.
SPANGO, upland stream, running about 6 miles eastward to the Crawick at 5 miles north-by-east of Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire.
SPAR CAVE, notable stalactitic cavern on west side of Loch Slapin, Isle of Skye.
SPARTLEDOWN, lofty summit of Lammermoors, 9 miles south of Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.
SPEAN, river, running about 20 miles, chiefly west-south-westward, from Loch Laggan to the Lochy, in Great Glen, Inverness-shire. Its basin is alpine, has Glenspean along its middle, and includes Glenroy and Glentreig in its flanks.
SPEAN-BRIDGE, hamlet on Spean river, 10 miles from Fort-William, Inverness-shire. It has a post office designated of Inverness-shire, and a hotel.
SPEDDOCH. hamlet, with mill and pub-lie school, on Cluden river, in Holywood parish, Dumfriesshire.
