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STRATHCEANNARD, vale of Ceannard rivulet, descending westward to Loch Broom, in north-west of Ross-shire.

STRATHCLYDE.

STRATHCONAN, reach of Conan river's valley north-eastward from foot of Strathgarve, in south-east of Ross-shire. It has a post office designated of Ross-shire, a Free church, and a public school.

STRATHCROE, glen of Croe rivulet, descending south-south-westward to head of Loch Duich, on south-west border of Ross-shire.

STRATHDEARN, glen and basin of Findhorn river in Inverness-shire, Nairnshire, and west border of Elginshire.

STRATHDEE, valley of the Dee in Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire.

STRATHDIGHTY, valley of Dighty rivulet in south of Forfarshire.

STRATHDINARD, glen, descending about 9 miles northward to head of Kyle of Durness, in north-west of Sutherland.

STRATHDIRRIE, wild moorish mountain glen, traversed by Dime head-stream of river Conan, in centre of Ross-shire.

STRATHDON, hamlet and parish on west border of Aberdeenshire. The hamlet lies on the river Don, 45 miles west of Aberdeen, and has a post office, with money order department, under Aberdeen, a banking office, Established and Free churches, and a large public school. The parish embosoms part of Tarl and, measures 16 miles by 9 across the intersection, and comprises 47,728 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 8625. Pop. 1316. The surface is remarkably diversified, exhibits blendings of Lowland beauty with Highland wildness, includes a fine strath along the Don and five sequestered glens, and contains rugged masses of lofty hill and mountain. Little more than an eighth is arable or wooded, and the rest is either pastoral or waste. Chief seats are Castle-Newe, Edinglassie, Candacraig, Invernan, Auchornach, Bellabeg, Skellater, and Glenkindy; and a chief antiquity is Invernochty dune. A quoad sacra parochial church and a Roman Catholic chapel are at Corgarff ; and public schools are at Knocklea and Forbeston.

STRATHEARN, either the valley or the entire basin of the river Earn in Perthshire. It exhibits great wealth of picturesque landscape ; it formed a stewartry, with Crieff for its capital, in the times of hereditary jurisdiction ; and it gave the title of earl to an old branch of the royal family of Stewart, and that of duke in the Scottish peerage to the Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria.

STRATHEDEN, valley of Eden river in Fife. It gives the peerage title of baron to a branch of the family of Campbell.

STRATHENDRICK, valley of the End-rick, in Stirlingshire.

STRATHENDRY, seat in Leslie parish, Fife.

STRATHERRICK, band of upland plain, parallel to south-east side of greater part of Loch Ness, in Inverness-shire. It is mostly separated from the loch by a narrow range of hills; it sends to the loch, through that range, the rivulets Foyers and Farigag ; it exhibits a diversity of arable land, meadow tumulation, and moor; it is flanked by lofty granitic heights with many bare summits ; and it has a Free church, a Roman Catholic church, and a public school with about 93 scholars.

STRATHFARRAR, ancient district, ex-tending from Loch Beauly up the rivers Glass and Farrar to head of Glenstrathfarrar, on north-west border of Inverness-shire.

STRATHFENELLA, hill and narrow vale in Fordoun parish, Kincardineshire.

STRATHFILLAN, glen of rivulet Fillan, descending 10 miles eastward from Benloy to head of Glendochart, in extreme south-west of Perthshire. It contains Tyndrum village and a Free church, and it formerly had, about midway between Tyndrum and Crianlarich, a priory founded by King Robert Bruce.

STRATHFLEET, valley of Fleet rivulet in south-east of Sutherland.

STRATHGARRY, valley of Garry river in Athole district, Perthshire.

STRATHGARTNEY, tract along north side of Loch Katrine, Perthshire.

STRATHGARVE, glen and vale traversed by Garve rivulet, past west base of Benwyvis, to conflux with the Conan, in Ross-shire.

STRATHGLASS, vale of rivers Glass and Beauly, from Chisholm's Pass to head of Loch Beauly, in north-west of Inverness-shire.

STRATHGRYFE, valley of the Gryfe in Renfrewshire, but formerly all the Gryfe's basin together with part of basin of the Cart.

STRATHHALLADALE.

STRATHHEAD, tract in Auchtergaven parish, Perthshire.

STRATHHELMSDALE, glen and vale of Helmsdale river, Sutherland.

STRATHIRE.

STRATHKINNESS, village and quoad sacra parish in east of Fife. The village stands 3 miles west of St. Andrews, and has a post office under St. Andrews, an Established church, a Free church, and 2 public schools with about 223 scholars. Pop. of the village, 584 ; of the quoad sacra parish, 1120.

STRATHLACHLAN.

STRATHLEVEN, seat in vale of Leven, Dumbartonshire.

STRATHLOCH.

STRATHMARTINE, ancient parish, now united to Mains, in Forfarshire. It has a public school with about 125 scholars.

STRATHMIGLO, village and parish on north-west border of Fife. The village stands on Miglo rivulet, 8 miles north-east-by-east of Kinross, is partly old, partly new, and has a post office with money order and telegraph departments designated of Fife, a railway station, a banking office, a parochial church, 2 Free churches, United Presbyterian and Evangelical Union churches, and 2 public schools with about 258 scholars. Pop. 585. The parish contains also Edenshead village, measures about 5J miles by 3f , and com-prises 9024 acres. Real property in 188(^81, 13,925. Pop. 2061. The surface includes low skirts of the Ochil Hills on the north, and most of the bold lofty West Lomond Hill on the south, but consists chiefly of a fine valley traversed by Miglo rivulet or upper reach of the Eden. A great assemblage of cairns and tumuli was formerly in the west, and has been regarded by some persons as occupying the battlefield of Mons Grampus between the Caledonians and the Romans.


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