SPRINGFIELD, village on Eden river, 2 miles west-south-west of Cupar, Fife. It has a post office under Cupar, a railway station, and a quoad sacra parochial church. Pop. of village, 931 ; of quoad sacra parish, 1480. Springfield House is adjacent.
SPRINGFIELD, village on Sark rivulet at boundary with England, 9 miles east of Annan, Dumfriesshire. It was founded in 1791, and became the place of the Gretna irregular marriages. Pop. 200.
SPRINGFIELD, place, with paper-mills on North Esk river, 1^ mile south-south-west of Lasswade, Edinburghshire. Springfield House is adjacent.
SPRINGFIELD, part of Larkfield, Lanarkshire.
SPRINGFIELD, seat in Cadder parish, Lanarkshire.
SPRINGFIELD, seat in St. Yigeans parish, Forfarshire.
SPRINGFIELD, ruined old castle in Scone parish, Perthshire.
SPRINGHILL, seat in Newhills parish, Aberdeenshire.
SPRINGHILL, estate in Douglas parish, Lanarkshire.
SPRINGHOLM, village on mutual border of Urr and Kirkpatrick-Durham parishes, Kirkcudbrightshire. It has a post office under Dalbeattie, and a public school. Pop. 223.
SPRINGKELL, seat of Sir John H. Maxwell, Bart., 4J miles east of Eccle-fechau, Dumfriesshire.
SPRINGVALE, north-eastern suburb of Glasgow.
SPRINGWELL, suburb of Stonefield, Lanarkshire. Pop. 693.
SPRINGWOOD, seat of Sir George H. S. Douglas, Bart., on the Teviot, 1J mile south-south-west of Kelso, Roxburghshire.
SPROUSTON, village and parish in extreme north-east of Roxburghshire. The village stands near right bank of the Tweed, 2J miles east-north-east of Kelso, was once a considerable town, suffered much devastation from the English, presents now a semi-rural appearance, and has a post office under Kelso, a railway station, a parochial church with 420 sittings, and a public school with about 64 scholars. The parish contains also Lempitlaw hamlet, measures 4J miles by 3|, and comprises 8635 acres. Real property in 188(^81, 16,286. Pop. 1026. The northern district lies along the Tweed, and is low and fertile ; and the southern district includes two ridgy swells, with intermediate vale. A Free church of Sprouston is in Kelso, and 4 schools, with accommodation for 290 scholars, are in the parish.
SPURNESS, headland at southern extremity of Sanday Island, Orkney.
SPUTBAAN, cascade on river Lyon at mouth of Glenlyon, Perthshire.
SPYLAW, estate in Colinton parish, Edinburghshire.
SPYNIE, ancient parish, with quondam episcopal palace and cathedral church, 1^ mile north-north-east of Elgin. It took its name from a lake, 3 miles long, which has been entirely drained ; and it gave the peerage title of baron from 1590 till 1672 to the family of Lindsay. The palace was a magnificent edifice, forming a quadrangle of about 120 feet, with strong towers at the corners, and it still exists in a state of haggard ruin. A new church, in lieu of the cathedral, was erected on' a widely different site in 1736, and occasioned the parish to be thenceforth called New Spynie.
SPYNIE (NEW), parish, containing Bishopmill suburb of Elgin. It measures about 4 miles by 2, and comprises 5956 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 5432. Pop., quoad civilia, 1626; quoad sacra, 544. Part of bed of quondam Spynie lake is on the northern border, and a ridge 3 miles long, rising into considerable hill, and mostly covered with wood, extends along the middle. The parochial church stands fully 2 miles north-west of Elgin. There are 3 schools with accommodation for 208 scholars. SPYONBEG and SPYONMORE, hills, 1155 and 1455 feet high, on north-east coast of Mull Island, Argyleshire.
SQUARETOWN, hamlet in Newton parish, Edinburghshire.
SRONFERNAN, village on Loch Tay, 3 mileswest-by-south of Kenmore, Perthshire.
STABLESTONE, place, with public school, in Douglas parish, Lanarkshire.
STACK, fine lake, 3 miles long, and mountain, 2364 feet high, overhanging that lake, in Edderachyllis parish, Sutherland.
STACK, mountain, overhanging _west side of Loch Eck, in Cowal, Argyleshire.
STACK, rocky islet, famous for seals, 31 miles north of "Whiten Head, in Sutherland.
STACK-A-CHLO, insulated pillar-rock, about 200 feet high, near the coast, 2^ miles east-south-east of Cape Wrath, in Sutherland.
STACKS, two insulated tower-like rocks near Duncansby Head, in Caithness.
STACKS, insulated rocks, the chief one a huge tower-like perforated mass, and all swarming with sea-fowl, near mouth of Wick Bay, Caithness.
STAFFA, famous basaltic island, 4J miles west-by-north of nearest part of Gribon promontory, and 57 _ miles by steamer's course west of Oban, in Argyleshire. It has an irregularly oval outline, measures about 1J mile in circuit, and rises to a height of 129 feet above high-water level. It lies on a basement of conglomerated trap'; projects thence a small rough landing-place, and a small basaltic inclined plane ; nearly adjoins an islet of similar structure to its own ; ascends in vertical columnar cliffs to near its summit; is pierced with grand basaltic caves ; and terminates in an uneven plateau of amorphous rock. Its objects of chief interest, named in order from the landing-place, are the Buachaille or Herdsman, a conoidal islet about 30 feet high, faced with basal-tic columns seeming to be piled against a central nucleus ; the Great Causeway, an inclined plane of similar character to the Giant's Causeway on the north coast of Ireland, but both larger and more picturesque ; the Great Colonnade, a long facade of vertical columnar cliff, averagely about 36 feet high ; Fingal's Cave, 59 ifeet high, 33 feet wide, and 288 feet long, faced all round with basaltic columns ; the Boat Cave, 16 feet high, 12 feet broad, and 150 feet long, presenting some resemblance to the gallery of a mine ; and the Cormorant's or Mackinnon's Cave, 50 feet high, 48 feet wide, and 224 feet long, walled with conglomerate trap and crowded with cormorants.
