SUTORS-OF-CROMARTY, two bold pro-montorial wooded hills, almost resembling sides of a stupendous gateway, at mouth of Cromarty Firth.
SUURSAY, islet in Sound of Harris, Outer Hebrides.
SWAINBOST, range of village northward from Cross, in Barras parish, Lewis, Outer Hebrides. Pop. of Swainbost-proper, 336 ; with Cross, Habost, Lional, and Port, 1495.
SWAITES, hill in Pettinain parish, Lanarkshire.
SWANA.
SWANBISTER, ruined remnant of palace of Earls of Orkney, on coast, 6J miles south-west of Kirkwall, Orkney.
SWANSTON, village, 5 miles south-south-west of Edinburgh.
SWARTMILL, lake in Westray Island, Orkney.
SWEETHEART ABBEY.
SWENO'S STONE, interesting sculptured ancient obelisk in vicinity of Forres, Elginshire.
SWIN, sea-loch, in west of Knapdale, Argyleshire. It opens opposite southern part of Jura ; strikes north-north-eastward in such divergent line as to leave only a narrow peninsula between it and Jura Sound ; measures 10 miles in length, and from 2 miles to 5 furlongs in width ; has intricately-cut shores and wooded sloping hilly screens ; and adjoins, at two miles from its mouth, the ruined strong ancient fortalice of Castle Swin.
SWINANESS, headland, with rare minerals, on east side of Unst Island, Shetland.
SWINDON, hill in Morebattle parish, Roxburghshire.
SWINDRIDGE, seat near Dairy, Ayrshire.
SWINEHILL, colliery in Dalserf parish, Lanarkshire.
SWINEY, village, mansion, and ruined feudal fortalice, 12 miles south-west of Wick, Caithness. The village has a public school with about 84 scholars, and an inn.
SWINNA.
SWINNIE, place, with traces of ancient camp, in Jedburgh parish, Roxburghshire.
SWINSEY, affluent of the Annock at Stewarton, Ayrshire.
SWINTON, village and parish in Merse district, Berwickshire. The village stands on Leet rivulet, 5 miles south-east of Dunse, stands round a large green, and has a post office, with money order department, under Dunse, an inn, an ancient cross, Established and Free churches, and 2 public schools with accommodation for 232 scholars. Pop. 434. The parish measures about 4 miles by 3, and comprises 5561 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 11,364. Pop. 964. The surface is partly a series of low, billowy, parallel ridges, partly a series of interjacent level tracts. Swinton House is a handsome modern edifice on site of one of great antiquity.
SWINTON, village in Old Monkland parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 619.
SWINTON BANK, seat in northern vicinity of Peebles.
SWONA, island in Pentland Firth, 3 miles west-by-north of southern extremity of South Ronaldshay Island, Orkney. Its length is 1J mile ; its mean breadth less than \ mile. Pop. 47. Whirlpools, called Wells of Swona, are adjacent.
SWONA, lake, 5 miles in circuit, near northern extremity of Pomona, Orkney.
SWORDLE, village in Stornoway parish, Outer Hebrides. Pop. 219.
SWORDLY, vale and bay in Farr parish, Sutherland.
SWORDWELL, battlefield between Scotch and English in Dornock parish, Dumfriesshire.
SYDSERF, decayed mansion in North Berwick parish, Haddingtonshire.
SYMINGTON, village and parish in north-west of Kyle, Ayrshire. The village stands 5 miles south-west of Kilmarnock, and has a post office under Kilmarnock, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 96 scholars. The parish measures about 4 miles by 1, and com-prises 3725 acres. Real property in 1879-80, 7467. Pop. 697. The land has pleasant diversity of swells and slopes, and is partly wooded and all elsewhere arable. Chief seats are Williamfield, Rosemount, Dankeith, and Townend.
SYMINGTON, village and parish in upper ward of Lanarkshire. The village stands adjacent to the Clyde, 7 miles south-east of Carstairs Junction, and has a post office under Biggar, a renovated very old church, and a public school with accommodation for 71 scholars. The parish measures 3 miles by nearly 1J, and comprises 3504 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 5913. Pop. 462. The surface includes a low tract of arable land along the Clyde, and rises thence in high pastoral land to the summit of Tinto Mountain. Chief antiquities are vestiges of a camp near the village, and remains of a castle on the slope of Tinto.
