BERRYHEAD, grand rocky promontory fit south end of Walls, Orkney.

BERRYHILL, place in Carnbusnethan parish, Lanarkshire. It has a public school with about 256 scholars.

BERRYHILL, seat, 2 miles west of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

BERRYHILL, estate in Kilsyth parish, Stirlingshire.

BERRYKNOWE, seat near south-western outskirts of Glasgow.

BERTHA, site of ancient town, on quondam Roman road, at influx of the Almond to the Tay, 2 miles north of Perth.

BERTRAM-SHOTTS.

BERVIE, rivulet, town, and parish in Kincardineshire. The rivulet runs curv-ingly about 12 miles eastward to the sea. The town stands on the right side of the rivulet's mouth, at terminus of Montrose and Bervie Railway ; ranks as a royal and parliamentary burgh, grouped with Montrose, Arbroath, Brechin, and Forfar ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Fordoun, 2 banking offices, a modern town hall, a public hall of 1876, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches, and a public school with about 79 scholars. Real property in 1880-81, 2877. Pop. 1095. The parish contains also the village of Gourdon, and comprises 2332 acres. Real property of landward part in 1880-81, 3746. Pop. 2107. The surface ascends gradually inland, but has two nearly parallel hill-ridges. There are 2 public schools for 354 scholars, and 1 of them, for 170, is new.

BERVIE BROW, bold promontory at left side of mouth of Bervie rivulet, Kincardineshire.

BERWICK (NORTH), town and parish on north coast of Haddingtonshire. The town stands at terminus of branch railway amid charming environs, adjacent to fine beach and golfing links, 22| miles east-north-east of Edinburgh ; is a royal burgh, a nominal seaport, and a fashionable watering-place ; unites with Haddington, Dunbar, Jedburgh, and Lauder in sending a member to Parliament ; consists chiefly of 2 streets, at nearly right angles with each other ; and has a head post office with all departments, 2 banking offices, 2 hotels, 2 private hotels, a town hall projected in 1872, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Episcopalian churches, a public school with about 266 scholars, and some remains of an ancient nunnery, celebrated in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion. Real property in 1880-81, 9271. Pop. 1398. The parish includes Tantallon Castle and the Bass, and measures on the mainland about 3g miles by 3. Acres, 5067. Real property of landward part in 1880-81, 17,511. Pop. of the whole, 2688. North Berwick Law, in southern vicinity of the town, is an embellished, conical hill, 612 feet high, and commands an exquisite panoramic view. North Berwick or Leuchie House, east-south-east of the Law, is the seat of Sir Hew H. Dalrymple, Bart. The coast of the parish is rocky and indented, the interior is richly cultivated, and the southern district is crossed by a picturesque range of trap rocks. There are 4 schools for 482 scholars, and 1 of them, for 400, is new.

BERWICKSHIRE, county in extreme south-east of Scotland. Its boundary, on the north, is a line through the centre of the Lammermoor Hills ; on the east, the German Ocean ; on the south, an artificial line of 4^ miles, and the river Tweed, dividing it from England ; on the west, partly the river Leader, and partly an artificial line dividing it from Roxburghshire and Edinbut-ghshire. Its greatest length is 34 miles ; its greatest breadth, 21 miles ; its coast line, about 22 miles ; its area, 464 square miles. The Lammer-moor Hills, to the average breadth of about 7 miles, occupy all the north ; a diversified tract of hill, dale, and ravine, about 5J miles in mean breadth, faced mostly with high, rocky, precipitous-coast, forms all the east ; the Merse, a diversified luxuriant champaign, occupies-all the south ; and Lauderdale, partly vale and partly hilly, forms the west. The rocks are chiefly Silurian and devonian, and the soils are exceedingly various.. The chief rivers, besides the Tweed and the Leader, are the Whitadder and the Blackadder ; and the smaller streams of any note are the Eye, the Dye, the Ale, and the Leet. Agriculture is in prime condition, and fisheries are important, but manufactures are of small amount. The towns with each between 2000 and 3000 inhabitants are Dunse and Eyemouth ; the towns with each between 1000 and 2000 inhabitants are Coldstream, Earlston, and Lauder ; and the towns or villages with each between 300 and 900 inhabitants are Greenlaw, Chirnside, Ayton, Coldingham, Gordon, Leitholm, Paxton, Swinton, and Burnmouth. Real property in 1880-81, 355,123. Pop. in 1871, 36,486; in 1881, 35,383.

BETHELNIE, hill, with traces of Roman camp, 4 miles north-west of Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire.

BETTYHILL, place at foot of Strathnaver, Sutherland.

BEVELAW, water-reservoir and old royal hunting-seat on the Pentlands, f> miles north-west of Penicuick, Edinburghshire.

BIEL.

BIELDSIDE, seat in Peterculter parish, Aberdeenshire.

BIGGA, island, about 2J miles long, in Yell Sound, Shetland.

BIGGAR, rivulet of Lanarkshire and Peeblesshire, and town and parish on south-east border of Lanarkshire. The rivulet runs about 4 miles southward, and 5 miles eastward to the Tweed, at 8 miles, south-west of Peebles. The town stands-on the rivulet, 15f miles west-south-west of Peebles; consists of 2 parts, ancient and modern ; was the scene of a battle between Sir William Wallace and the English ; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 3 banking offices, 3 chief inns, a large ancient moat, a good bridge of 1873, a cruciform parochial church of 1545. a handsome United Presbyterian church of 1878, and 3 public schools with about 343 scholars. Pop. 1556. The parish is 6^ miles long, and comprises 7272 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 14,445. Pop. 2128. The surface is partly hilly, and partly portion of a dingle extending from the Clyde to the Tweed. The seats are Biggar Park, Cambus-Wallace, Edmonston, and Carwood.