BOSTON, church in Dunse, Berwickshire.

BOSWELLS (ST.), village and parish on north border of Roxburghshire. The village is commonly called Lessudden ; succeeded an ancient village of St. Boswells about mile to the south, dating from the Culdee times, possessing 16 strong bastile houses in the feudal times, and destroyed by the English in 1544; stands near the Tweed, 4 miles south-east of Melrose ; adjoins a large common, flanked by a hunting establishment of the Duke of Bucclcuch, and used for a famous annual sheep and cattle fair, and has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, 2 good inns, Established and Free churches, and a public school with about 140 scholars. Pop. 438. The parish comprises 3155 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 10,395. Pop. 959. The surface, though overhung by the Eildon Hills, is nearly all low, and either flat or undulating. The seats are Lessudden House, Elliston, Benrig, Max-poffle, and St. Boswell's Bank.

BOTHKENNAR, parish, containing Skinflats village, part of Grangemouth town, and parts of Carronshore and Kinnaird villages, in Carse district, Stirlingshire. Post town, Falkirk. Acres, 1774. Real property in 1880-81, 18,157. Pop. 3210. The surf ace is a dead flat, all rich alluvium. The public school has about 269 scholars.

BOTHWELL, town, park, and parish in middle ward of Lanarkshire. The town stands amid delightful environs, 2| miles north-west of Hamilton ; is a favourite summer resort of wealthy Glasgow citizens ; and has a post oflfice, with all departments, under Hamilton, a railway station, a banking office, a hotel, a water scheme which .cost 35,335 up to April 1880, a towered parochial church of 1833, the choir of an ancient collegiate church adjoining the parochial one, Free and United Presbyterian churches, and a public school with about 165 scholars. Pop. 1520. The park lies adjacent to the town, extends far to the north-west, belongs to the Earl of Home, and contains his mansion of Bothwell Hall, and the large imposing ruin of Bothwell Castle, once held by Sir William Wallace, and figuring greatly for ages as both a palatial residence and a military strength. The parish contains also Bellshill, Holytown, Carnbroe, Carfin, Chapelhall, Mossend, Nackerton, Ne wart hill, and Uddingston, and parts of Calderbank and Cleland. Its length is about 8i miles ; its breadth about 4 miles; its area, 13,644 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 127,942. Pop., quoad civilia, 25,466 ; quoad sacra, 7597. J Jot h well Bridge, the scene of the crushing defeat of the Covenanters in 1(579, spans the Clyde about mile south-south-east of Bothwell town, but was widened and greatly altered in 1826 and 1871. The Clyde meanders about 4 miles along the south-western boundary," beneath diversified beautiful banks, celebrated in ancient song. The land, for the most part, undulates, and rises thence toward the north-east, and includes there a plateau averagely about 300 feet high, with culminating height of about 680 feet. Coal, ironstone, and sandstone abound, and are extensively worked. Woodhall, Cleland, Carfin, Carnbroe, St. Enoch's Hall, and Douglas Park are chief residences. There are 20 schools for 3795 scholars, and 6 of them and enlargements for 1610 are new.

BOTHWELL, small affluent of the Whitadder, at boundary between Haddingtonshire and Berwickshire.

BOTHWELL AND HAMILTON RAILWAY. This was authorized in 1874, on a capital of 500,000 ; and it comprises a main line, a sub-main line, and a multiplicity of branches. The main line strikes from the North British at Shettleston, goes south-eastward, past Uddingston, Bothwell, and Greenfield, to Hamilton, and was in operation in 1877. The sub-main line strikes from the main line about 400 yards north of Bothwell station ; goes north-eastward, past Bellshill and across Rosehall estate, to the North British at Whifflet ; and was opened in May 1879. The numerous branches traverse the principal intervening mineral tracts, and serve largely for transport of coal.

BOTHWELL BRANCH RAILWAY. This belongs to the Caledonian system, goes from Falside Junction to Bothwell, is about 1J mile long, and was opened in March 1877.

BOTHWELLHAUGH, quondam seat about a mile east of Bothwell Bridge, Bothwell parish, Lanarkshire. It belonged to James Hamilton, who shot the Regent Moray.

BOTRIPHNIE, parish, averagely 6 miles south-west of Keitli, Banffshire. It has a post office under Keith. It measures about 4& miles by 3, and comprises 9459 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 4571. Pop. 696. The greater part is a beautiful strath, traversed by the Isla, and flanked by two hills. The only seat is Botriphnie House. The churches are Established and Free. The public school has accommodation for 127 scholars.

BOURJO, very large ancient tumulus, on Eildon Hills, Roxburghshire.

BOURTIE, parish, a little south of Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire. Post town, Old Meldrum. It is 5 miles long, and comprises 5693 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 5796. Pop. 463. The surface is mainly a low tract about a mile broad, flanked by considerably high hills. The antiquities include two ancient Caledonian stone circles, and remains of a remarkable old fortification, misnamed Comyn'sCamp. The public school has about 49 scholars.

BOUSTA, hamlet in Dunrossness parish, Shetland.

BOVERAY, island in North Uist parish, Outer Hebrides. Pop. 137.