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TURRY, quondam ancient chapel in Coull parish, Aberdeenshire.

TUSHIELAW, burn, inn, and old tower in Selkirkshire. The inn stands at influx of the burn to Ettrick river, 4f miles north-east of Ettrick hamlet ; and the tower stands f mile to the south-west, and was the stronghold of the notable freebooter commonly called King of the Thieves.

TWATT, place, with public school, ancient burying-place, and site of ancient church, in Sandsting parish, Shetland.

TWECHAR, village in Kirkintilloch parish, Dumbartonshire. Pop. 671.

TWEED, river, chiefly in Scotland, partly on boundary with England, and briefly in England. It rises near centre of Southern Highlands, at elevation of about 1500 feet above sea-level ; runs pre-vailingly north-north-eastward to Peebles, eastward and sometimes east-south-east-ward thence to Kelso, and variously north-eastward and north-north-eastward thence to the sea at Berwick ; and, measured in straight lines, has a total course of about 100 miles. Its upper reaches traverse bleak high moors ; its further reaches traverse narrow vales, flanked by verdant or wooded hills ; its still further reaches traverse a wide, rich valley with fine diversity of sky-line ; and its final reaches traverse a deep wood-fringed bed through a great opulent cham-paign. Its basin comprises about 1870 square miles ; and both its own waters and those of its chief affluents afford famous fishing.

TWEEDDALE.

TWEEDEN, burn, running to the Liddel at J mile south of Newcastleton, Roxburghshire.

TWEEDHILL, seat in Hutton parish, Berwickshire.

TWEEDHOPE, head-stream of the Tweed in Tweedsmuir parish, Peeblesshire.

TWEEDMILL, place in Coldstream parish, Berwickshire.

TWEEDSCROSS, hill, with site of ancient cross, adjacent to source of the Tweed, on south-west verge of Peeblesshire.

TWEEDSIDE, reach of the Tweed's vale within S elkirkshire.

TWEEDSMUIR, parish in extreme south-west of Peeblesshire. It contains Crook post office under Biggar, measures 9 miles by 8, and comprises 32,469 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 8207. Pop. 215. The boundary all round, except for about 2| miles in the north, consists of lofty watersheds of the Southern Highlands, and includes, in the south-west and south, some of their loftiest summits ; and even all the interior is a congeries of mountains and lofty hills, diversified only by bogs and j narrow vales. The entire area is simply i the basin of the uppermost reach of the Tweed. A chief residence is Oliver House, and chief antiquities are vestiges of Oliver, Fruid, and Hawkshaw castles. The church was rebuilt in 1875 ; and the public school has accommodation for 35 scholars.

TWEED'S WELL, fountain emitting head-stream of the Tweed. 6f miles south-south-west of Tweedsmuir church, Peeblesshire.

TWINLAW, one of the Lammermoor Hills, crowned by two large conspicuous cairns, in north of Westruther parish. Berwickshire.

TWISLEHOPE, burn, running to Hermitage rivulet in Castleton parish, .Roxburghshire.

TWYNHOLM, village and parish in south of Kirkcudbrightshire. The village stands 3 miles north-north-west of Kirkcudbright, and has a post office designated of Kirkcudbrightshire, a parochial church with 410 sittings, and a public school with 96 scholars. The parish measures 9| miles by 2J, and comprises 10,484 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 9670. Pop. 681. The Tarf forms middle part of the eastern J boundary for nearly 2 miles, and the Dee ! afterwards forms it to a point about 3 miles south of Kirkcudbright. The land adjacent to the rivers is partly haugh ; westward, in the south and in the centre, is rolling and hillocky ; and in the north is chiefly high pastoral plateau. Chief seats are Compston and Barwhinnock ; and chief antiquities are ruins of Compston Castle and remains of Caledonian forts.

TYNABRUACH.

TYNDRUM, small village at head of Strathfillan, amid wild mountain scenery, 34 miles by railway north-west-by-west of Callander, Perthshire. It has a post office under Stirling, a railway station, and a large hotel.

TYNE, river, rising on east verge of Edinburgh.sb.ire, bisecting all Haddingtonshire, running altogether about 28 miles, chiefly north-eastward, and entering the seaabout 2^ miles north-west of Dunbar.

TYNE, large river, drawing brief head-streams from south-east border of Roxburghshire, but having all its subsequent course within England to the sea between Tynemouth and South Shields.

TYNECASTLE, western suburb of Edinburgh.

TYNEHEAD, place near source of Tyne river, 16 miles south-east of Edinburgh. It has a post office designated of Mid-Lothian, and a railway station.

TYNETT, burn and place, with Roman Catholic church, in Rathven parish, Banffshire.

TYNNINGHAME, village, bay, noble mansion, and ancient parish on north coast of Haddingtonshire. The village stands 5J miles west-north-west of Dunbar, and has a post office under Prestonkirk, and a public school with about 87 scholars. The bay is a small estuary at mouth of the Tyne. The mansion stands about i mile west of the bay, is the chief seat of the Earl of Haddington, and lias an extensive richly-wooded park. The parish is now united to Whitekirk.


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