TRON, parish, with Established and Free churches, in central part of Glasgow. Pop. quoad sacra, 4207.

TRONACH, ruined castle in Eathven parish, Banffshire.

TRONDA, bay and cave in Belting parish, Shetland.

TRONDRA, island, about 3 miles long and nearly 2 miles broad, in southern vicinity of Scalloway, Shetland. Pop. 133.

TROOL, glen and lake about 9 miles north of Minnigaff village, Kirkcudbrightshire. The glen contains a seat of the Earl of Galloway; is flanked by lofty hills, partly precipitous, partly wooded ; and was the scene of a skirmish, in 1685, between Covenanters and Government troops. The lake lies in the glen, and is 2 miles long, and richly picturesque.

TROON, promontory, seaport town, and quoad sacra parish in Kyle district, Ayrshire. The promontory projects into head of Ayr Bay at 5 miles north of Ayr town, measures about 1| mile in length and j mile in breadth, and is low, rocky, and curving. The town occupies large portion of the promontory ; figures strikingly in views both from land and from water ; possesses attractions as a watering-place, and advantageous position as a port ; communicates with Kilmarnock by a rail-way of 1812, the oldest in Scotland ; communicates by coach also with a near station of the coast-line railway ; and has a head post office with all departments, 2 banking offices, a hotel, large harbour accommodations, Established, Free, and United Presbyterian churches, and a large public school. The vessels belonging to the port at end of 1879 were 9 sailing vessels of 1855 tons, and 2 steam vessels of 150 tons. The entries during that year were 2759 British vessels of 309,620 tons, and 66 foreign vessels of 20,449 tons ; and the departures were 2687 British vessels of 294,323 tons, and 67 foreign vessels of 19,842 tons. Pop. of the town, 2328 ; of the quoad sacra parish, 2532.

TROQUEER, parish, containing Maxwelltown, on east border of Kirkcudbrightshire. Its length is 8J miles; its greatest breadth 4J miles ; its area 11,675 acres. Real property in 1880-81, of Maxwelltown, 12,837 ; of landward part, 16,104. Pop. of the whole, quoad civilia, 5524; quoad sacra, 3454. The surface extends along the right bank of the Nith from head of Maxwelltown to a point near Newabbey village ; rises thence in the aggregate toward the west ; and is divided into three sections by three parallel ranges of heights, all of such gentle elevation as to be wholly or chiefly arable. Chief seats are Kirkconnell, Cargen, Mabie, Dalscairth, Goldielea, Terraughty, Carruchan, Cargenholm, Mavis-Grove, and numerous handsome villas ; and a chief antiquity is a circular artificial mound, anciently a seat of courts of justice. The parochial church stands on the Nith, opposite extreme south of Dumfries ; a quoad sacra parochial church and a Free church are in Maxwelltown ; a Koman Catholic church is at Kirkconnell ; and 4 schools, with accommodation for 710 scholars, are in the parish. TROS8ACHS, defile and quoad sacra parish near south-west extremity of Perthshire. The defile commences 8 miles west-by-south of Callander ; is adjoined there by Trossachs Hotel, erected in 1852, and overhung by a hill 1149 feet high ; extends about a mile westward to foot of Loch Katrine ; is a profound, dark, craggy, wooded gorge, overtopped at the sides of its west end by Benvenue and Benawn ; took its name, signifying 'Bristled Land,' from profusion of peaks and fissures on its flanks ; could formerly be entered only by ' a sort of ladder composed of the branches and roots of trees ; ' is now traversed by a good public road, commanding impressive views of its features; and cannot be described better than in the highly graphic language of a well-known long passage of Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake. The quoad sacra parish comprises parts of Callander, Aberfoyle, and Port-of-Monteith. Its church, a small modern edifice, stands on Loch Achray, and its public school has about 38 scholars. Pop. 302.

TROSTRIE, lake in Twynholm parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

TROTTERNISH, district, comprehending all Portree, Kilmuir, and Snizort parishes, and small part of Bracadale and Strath, in Isle of Skye. Most of it is peninsular north-north-westward from the isthmus between head of Loch Portree and Loch Snizort.

TROUP, headland, hill, burn, and mansion in Gamrie parish, Banffshire.

TROW-CRAIGS, a congeries of bold rocks in the Tweed; 3| miles west-south-west of Kelso, Roxburghshire. The river's course through it, in ordinary times, is a series of rapids and eddies ; in times of freshet is wild foaming cataract.

TROWS, seat in Lesmahagow parish, Lanarkshire.

TRUDERSCAIG, lake in Kildonan parish, Sutherland.

TRUIM, rivulet, running 13 miles north-north-eastward to the Spey at 6 miles west of Kingussie, Inverness-shire.

TRUMISGARRY, quoad sacra parish in North Uist, Outer Hebrides. It measures about 17 miles by 12, and has Established and Free churches. Pop. 881.

TRUMP AN, old church in Vaternish, Isle of Skye.

TRUSTACH, estate in Banchory-Ternan parish, Kincardineshire.

TRYNELAW, seat near Strathaven, Lanarkshire.

TRYST, old mustering place of freebooters in Morebattle parish, Roxburghshire.

TUACH, burn, running north-eastward to the Don, in Kintore parish, Aberdeenshire.