BLACKFORD, hill in southern environs of Edinburgh, with fine view of that city.
BLACKFRIARS.
BLACKHALL, village, 2} miles west-by-north of Edinburgh. It has a post office under Edinburgh.
BLACKHALL, railway station, 3f miles north-east of Morningside, Lanarkshire.
BLACKHALL, roofless, strong, ancient baronial mansion, in the south-east environs of Paisley, Renfrewshire.
BLACKHALL, seat near Banchory, Kincardineshire.
BLACKHILL, quoad sacra parish near Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Peterhead, a recently erected church, and extensive granite quarries. Pop. 867.
BLACKHILL, place on Monkland Canal, 2 miles east-north-east of Glasgow. The canal here descends 96 feet by means of double locks and an inclined plane.
BLACKHILLOCK, place in Keith parish, Banffshire. It has a post office under Keith.
BLACKHILLS, place in Skene parish, Aberdeenshire.
BLACKHOPE, summit, 2136 feet high, of Moorfoot Hills, on mutual border of Edinburghshire and Peeblesshire.
BLACKHOUSE, ruined ancient fortalice, the scene of the Douglas tragedy, in the glen of Douglas Burn, and group of stern, high mountains at head of that glen, in Yarrow parish, Selkirkshire.
BLACK ISLE, peninsula between Cromarty Firth, Moray Firth, and Beauly Loch, Ross-shire.
BLACK KNOWE, each of 3 mountains in south-west of Selkirkshire.
BLACKLARG, mountain, 2231 feet high, at meeting point of Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire, and Kirkcudbrightshire.
BLACKLAW, place in Marnoch parish, Banffshire. It has a public school with about 159 scholars.
BLACKLAW, small hill, with rich, extensive view, in Fowlis section of Lundie parish, Forfarshire.
BLACK LOCB, small lake in Dumfries parish, Dumfriesshire.
BLACK LOCB, small lake in Mearns parish, Renfrewshire.
BLACK LOCB, small lake in Dunfermline parish, Fife.
BLACK LOCB, marshy lake in Blair- ^owne parish, Perthshire.
BLACK LOCBS, 2 lakes, Great and Little, in Slamannan parish, Stirliivshire
BLACKMILL, bay in Luing Island' Ar-ylcshire.
BLACKMORE, hill. 1039 feet high, near Dolphinton village, Lanarkshire.
BLACKNESS, village and castle on Firth of Forth, 3f miles north-east of Linlithgow. The village was long the port of Linlithgow, and had considerable commerce, but eventually became a merely nominal port and little else than a hamlet. The castle dates from ancient times, and succeeded a previous pile ; was long regarded as one of the government forts of Scotland ; passed latterly into a state of desuetude ; underwent transmutation, along with erection of adjacent buildings, in 1871-73, at a cost of about 10,000, in order to become the central ammunition depot of Scotland ; and was afterwards to be adapted and enlarged by other alterations and additional buildings.
BLACKPOTS, place in Boyndie parish, Banffshire.
BLACK QUARTER, part of Inch parish, formed in 1628 into Portpatrick parish, Wigtonshire.
BLACKRIDGE, village, 5^ miles west-by-south of Bathgate, Linlithgowshire. It has a post office under Bathgate, a Free church preaching-station, and a public school with about 46 scholars.
BLACK ROCK, lion-shaped hill, with vitrified fort, overhanging head of Glen-farigag, Inverness-shire.
BLACKROOT, hill, 4 miles south-east of Galston, Ayrshire.
BLACKSBOAT, place, 8J miles south-south-west of Aberlour, Banffshire. It has a post office under Craigellachie, and a railway station.
BLACKSHAW, village in Caerlaverock parish, Dumfriesshire.
BLACKSHIELS, village near north base of Soutra Hill, 15 miles south-east of Edinburgh. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Edinburgh.
BLACKSIDE-END, hill, 1342 feet high, with grand view, on north-east boundary of Sorn parish, Ayrshire.
BLACK SPOUT, cascade of about 120 feet, on Edradour burn, near Pitlochrie, Perthshire.
BLACKSTON, railway junction station,. 11 miles north-east of Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
BLACKSTOUN, seat in Kilbarchau parish, Renfrewshire.
BLACKSTOWN, village in Erskine parish, Renfrewshire. Pop. 311.
BLACKWATER, affluent of the Ken, Kirkcudbrightshire.
BLACKWATER, stream running to Drimadown Bay, Arran Island, Buteshire.
BLACKWATER, head-stream of the Ericht, Perthshire.
BLACKWATER, head-stream of the Deveron, Banffshire.
BLACKWATER, head-stream of the Conan, Ross-shire.
BLACKWATER, rivulet, confluent with the Brora, Sutherland.
BLACKWOOD, scat and railway station in Lewnahagow parish, Lanarkshire. See-also SOUTHFIELD.
