TARBET, village on west side of Loch Lomond, 1 mile east of Arrochar, Dumbartonshire. It stands on small bay opposite main front of Benlomond, commands an impressive view of upper reaches of the lake, and has a steamboat pier and a krge hotel.
TARBET CASTLE, picturesque islet, 3 miles west-north-west of North Berwick, Haddingtonshire.
TARBET (EAST and WEST), two small bays at east and west sides of isthmus near Mull of Galloway, Wigtonshire.
TARBOLTON, village and parish in Kyle district, Ayrshire. The village stands 4 miles west of Mauchline, was from 1777 till 1784 a habitual resort of the poet Burns, adjoins or is near numerous objects or scenes which figure in his writings, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Ayrshire, a railway station, 2 inns, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches, and 2 public schools. Pop. 922. The parish measures 7 miles by 4, and comprises 12,059 acres. Real property in 1879-80, 23,571. Pop. 3599. Ayr river traces most of the south-eastern boundary. The land adjacent to the river is low, and the rest consists partly of arable hill-ridges. The seats are Montgomery, Enterkin, Smithston, Drumley, and Afton Lodge ; and chief antiquities are ruins of Fail monastery and traces of reputed Roman camp. There were 3 schools for 465 scholars, and the board abolished 2 of them for 295, and provided a new one and an enlargement for 430.
TARF, rivulet and railway station in Kirkcudbrightshire. The rivulet runs about 11 miles southward to the Dee at If mile north of Kirkcudbright ; and the station stands adjacent to it, 3J miles from Kirkcudbright.
TARF, real head-stream of the Tilt, on north border of Athole, Perthshire. It rises and runs among the Central Grampians, goes 9 miles eastward to confluence with the nominal Tilt, and is all flanked and overhung by alpine masses.
TARF, affluent of the North Esk in Lochlee parish, Forfarshire.
TARFF, rivulet, running 7 miles curvingly north-westward to head of Loch Ness at Fort-Augustus, Inverness-shire.
TARFSIDE, hamlet in Lochlee parish, Forfarshire. It has a post office under Brechin.
TARLAIN, mineral spring on the coast near Macduff, Banffshire.
TARLAND, village and parish in south-west of Aberdeenshire. The village stands on burn of its own name, 5 miles north-west of Aboyne, and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Aberdeen, 2 banking offices, Established and Free churches, and a public school Pop. 374. The parish has a main body of about 5 miles by 4, includes a large 1 detached district about 8 miles to the west-north-west, and comprises 17,353 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 6992. Pop., quoad civilia, 1173; quoad sacra, 1051. A considerable aggregate of low ground lies along the course of streams, but most of the surface is hilly or mountainous. Chief seats are Skellater, Edinglassie, Candacraig, and Inverearnan ; and chief antiquities are remains of Caledonian stone circles, and vestiges of an old noble castle. A small Established church is in Migvie, and 3 schools for 236 scholars are in the parish.
TARLOGIE, estate in Tain parish, Ross-shire.
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TARRAS, rivulet, running 9 miles south-south-westward to the Esk at 2J miles south of Langholm, Dumfriesshire. It has a rugged bed, an impetuous current, and romantic banks; and it gave the title of earl in 1660 to a member of the family of Scott.
TARRIEMOUNT, place, with slate quarry, in Rathven parish, Banffshire.
TARRYCROYS, hamlet in Keith parish. Banffshire. It has a public school with, about 84 scholars.
TARTH, rivulet, running about 8 miles south-eastward to the Lyne near Drochil Castle, Peeblesshire.
TARTY, eminence in Logie-Buchan parish, Aberdeenshire.
TARVES, village and parish in Ellon district, Aberdeenshire. The village stands 6 miles west of Ellon, and has a post office under Aberdeen, a banking office, a parochial church with 870 sittings, and a public school with about 64 scholars. The parish contains also Craigdam, measures 12 miles by 8, and comprises 16,303 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 14,841. Pop. , quoad civilia, 2558 ; quoad sacra, 1827. The land is partly low, partly undulating and slightly hilly, and is watered by the Ythan and numerous burns. The only mansion is Schivas, and the chief antiquity is the ruin of Tolquhon Castle. A United Presbyterian church is at Craigdam. Four schools for 444 scholars are in the parish, and 1 of them and an enlargement for 170 are new.
TARVIT, seat and hill, the latter crowned by old tower 50 feet high, in south-eastern vicinity of Cupar, Fife.
TAY, lake in Breadalbane district, Perthshire, and river flowing thence to influx of the Earn, and proceeding thence as an estuary between Perthshire and Forfarshire on the left, and Fife on the right, to the German Ocean. The lake commences at Killin ; extends, with slight curves, to the north-east; measures 15 miles in length, about 1 mile in mean breadth, and from 15 to 100 fathoms in depth ; lies all in the bottom of a continuous glen ; and is flanked, on the left, by Benlawers and its offsets ; on the right, by a chain of heights more like hills than mountains. The river receives, through the lake, a line of head-stream descending from a point about 7 miles north-north-west of head of Loch Lomond; it goes eastward, with northerly curve, to Logierait, and there receives the Tummel, descending from a distance of about 60 miles ; it proceeds mainly south-eastward, but with great curves and sinuosities, to the influx of the Earn ; it traverses, to that point, a rich, diversified, picturesque valley, flanked variously by grand mountains, beautiful hills, and rolling banks ; and it proceeds, as an estuary, about 26 miles, mainly east-north-eastward, with width of from f mile to 9 miles, flanked variously by carse lands, slopes, and gentle heights. Its length, measured from remotest head-stream, but excluding sinuosities, is 115 miles; its extent of basin is about 2500 square miles ; and its volume of water, carried to its estuary, averages 218,400 cubic feet per minute.
