STREAM, sound, with river-like current, connecting Cliff and Burra Sounds, in south-west of Shetland.
STRELITZ, village, 4 miles south-west of Coupar-Angus, Perthshire.
STRETTUM, brae, with memorial stone of Macbeth, in Lumphanan parish, Aberdeenshire.
STRICHEN, town and parish in Buchan district, Aberdeenshire. The town stands on the Ugie, adjacent to Mormond Hill, 37 miles north of Aberdeen ; was founded in 1764 ; bore, for some time, the name of Mormond ; is built on a regular plan, with two principal streets meeting at an angle ; and has a post office, with money order department, under Aberdeen, a railway station, 2 banking offices, 3 hotels, a town hall, Established, Free, Episcopalian, and Roman Catholic churches, and 2 public schools with about 200 scholars. Pop. 1204. The parish contains also New Leeds village, measures 6J miles by 3f, and comprises 10,183 acres. Heal property in 1880-81, 12,894. Pop., quoad civilia, 2348 ; quoad sacra, 2013. The surface is cut into nearly equal parts by the Ugie, and has a general inclination to that river, but is prevailingly hilly. Strichen House is a Grecian edifice of 1821, and has grounds with remains of a Caledonian stone circle. There are 4 schools for 448 scholars, and 1 of them for 120 is new.
STRICKATHROW, parish, containing Inchbare post office village, on north border of Forfarshire. It lies averagely 3J miles north-by-east of Brechin, measures about-6f miles by 2, and comprises 5239 acres. Eeal property in 1880-81, 6614. Pop. 487. The middle district is part of Strathmore ; the north-west district is largely occupied by the conspicuous hill of Lundie ; and the south-east district comprises part of Strickathrow Hill, a plateau upwards of 400 feet high, extending into three contiguous parishes. The seats are Strickathrow House, Auchenreoch, and Newtonmill ; and the chief antiquities are two old signal stations. The public school has about 81 scholars.
STRING, sound between Shapinshay and Pomona, in Orkney.
STRING, lake at eastern extremity of Kilninver parish, Argyleshire.
STRIVEN, sea-loch in south of Cowal, Argyleshire. It strikes from Kyles of Bute 2ijr miles north of Port-Bannatyne ; goes Si miles north-north-westward to Ballymore ; commences with a width of 2f miles, but contracts to a width of less than i mile ; and is flanked by steep, bleak, lofty hill-ranges.
STROAN, lake in Kells parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
STROMA, island in Pentland Firth, 3 miles west-north-west of Duncansby Head, Caithness. It measures 7 miles in circuit, rises mostly in lofty rocky cliffs, contains some good land, and has a post office under Wick, and a lofty iron beacon. Pop. 341.
STROMBERRY, headland at south-western extremity of Shapinshay Island, Orkney.
STROME, ruined ancient fortalice of the Glengarry Macdonalds, in vicinity of Strome Ferry, Ross-shire.
STROME FERRY, place on Loch Carron, 5 miles north-east of Plockton, in south-east of R,oss-shire. It is situated at terminus of Dingwall and Skye Railway, 53 miles west-south-west of Dingwall ; is the point of communication with the steamers to Skye ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Ross-shire, and a hotel.
STROMNESS, seaport town and parish in south-west of Orkney. The town stands on a fine bay 14 miles west-by-south of Kirkwall; adjoins picturesque hill scenery ; sprang from a small hamlet in course of last century; is now nearly a mile long, but very irregularly built ; possesses a safe commodious harbour, with new pier opened in 1879 ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Orkney, 3 banking offices, 2 hotels, an interesting museum, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches, and 2 public schools with about 220 scholars. Pop. 1703. The parish comprehends Holm Island and a tract of about 5 miles by 3f in Pomona. Real property in 1880-81, 5659. Pop. 2410. The main or Pomona part is bounded on the west by the Atlantic, on the south and south-east by Hoy Sound, on the north-east by Loch Stenness ; it presents to the Atlantic a range of cliffs from 100 to 500 feet high, to Hoy Sound a band of fertile lowlands ; and it else-where consists mainly of bleak sterile heights. The rocks possess great geological interest, and were made famous by the publication of Hugh Miller's Astero-lepis of Stromness. Breckness House, erected in 1633 by last Bishop of Orkney, stands on Breckness Head, at west en-trance of Hoy Sound ; and an ancient cemetery, with ruined church and remains of a monastery, lies midway between that edifice and the town. There are 3 schools, all new, for 350 scholars.
STRON, mineral field in Kirkintilloch parish, Dumbartonshire.
STRONACHLACHLAR, place, with steamboat pier and hotel, on upper part of Loch Katrine, 5 miles east-by-north of Inversnaid, and 7J west-north-west of Trossachs pier.
STRONCHRUBIE, farm, with interesting cave and vast ridge of limestone rock, in Assynt parish, Sutherland.
STRONE, headland and village on north side of Holy Loch, 2|- miles north-by-east of Dunoon, Argyleshire. The village is a modern watering-place, consists chiefly of a chain of villas and ornate cottages, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Argyleshire, a steamboat pier, a ferry station, a banking office, a hotel, a public hall of 1872, two neat churches, and a public school.
