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BRACHMAIT, place in Durris parish, Kincardineshire. It has a public school with about 80 scholars.

BRACHOLY, old parish, now part of Petty, Inverness-shire.

BRACK, small lake in Balmaclellan parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

BRACKLEY, old castle, the scene of a tragedy in 1502, near Ballater, Aberdeenshire.

BRACKLIN, cascade of 50 feet, in chasm on Keltic rivulet, near Callander, Perthshire.

BRACKMUIRHILL, place in Dunnottar parish, Kincardineshire. It has a public school with about 56 scholars.

BRACKNESS.

BRACO, village, 1 mile north of Greenloaning railway station, Perthshire. It stands adjacent to the celebrated Roman camp of Ardoch, and has a head post office with all departments, a hotel, an Established church, a Free church, and a public school. Pop. 270.

BRACO, estate and burn in Grange parish, Banffshire.

BRACTULLO, artificial conical mound, formerly place of capital punishment, in Kirkden parish, Forfarshire.

BRADAN, lake, 7 miles south-south-east of Straiton, Ayrshire.

BRAE, section of Kilmonivaig parish, Inverness-shire. It has an Established church, served by a minister on the royal bounty.

BRAE, place, with post office, under Lerwick, Shetland.

BRAE-AMAT, section of Kincardine parish in Cromartyshire, surrounded by Ross-shire.

BRAE-DUNSTAN, low hill-ridge in Eccles parish, Berwickshire.

BRAE-GRUDIE, place in Strathbrora, Sutherland.

BRAEHEAD, village inCarnwath parish, Lanarkshire. It has a United Presbyterian church with 500 sittings, and a public school with about 174 scholars. Pop. 432.

BRAEHEAD, seat in Cramond parish, Edinburghshire.

BRAEHEAD, village in Old Monkland parish Lanarkshire. Pop. 667.

BRAEHEADS, seat near Larkhall, Lanarkshire.

BRAEHEADS, rising ground on the Iweed, at St. Boswells village, Roxburghshire.

BRAE-LYON, mountains on north side of head of Glenlyon, Perthshire.

BRAEMAR, village and old parish in xtreme south-west of Aberdeenshire. Ihe village is properly Castletown, and will be noticed under that name, but it has a post office of Brae mar, with money order and telegraph departments, under Aberdeen, 2 castles of Braemar, new and H, and :t public school of Braemar with about 61 scholars. The parish is now part of Crathie.

BRAE-MORAY, chief part of Edinkillie parish, Elginshire.

BRAE-RIACH, alpine mountain, 4248 feet high, one of the Cairngorms, Aberdeenshire and Inverness-shire.

BRAE-ROY, tract in Kilmonivaig parish, Inverness-shire.

BRAES, section of Gartly parish, Aberdeenshire and Banffshire.

BRAESIDE, place, with public school, in Fetlar parish, Shetland.

BRAES OF ABERNETHY, section of Grampians in Abernethy parish, Inverness-shire.

BRAES OF ANGUS, section of Grampians in Forfarshire.

BRAES OF AVON, section of Grampians in Kirkmichael parish, Banffshire.

BRAES OF BALQUHIDDER, section of | Grampians in Balquhidder parish, Perthshire.

BRAES OF DOUNE, broad-based mountain-range, westward from upper part of Strathallan, Perthshire.

BRAES OF FORDOUN, skirts of Grampians in Fordoun parish, Kincardineshire.

BRAES OF GLENIFFER, hill-range about 2 miles south-west of Paisley, Renfrewshire.

BRAES OF GLENLIVET, mountain group in upper part of Inveraven parish, Banffshire.

BRAES OF GLENORCHY, alpine mountains in upper part of Glenorchy parish, Argyleshire.

BRAES OF KILPATRICK, section of Lennox Hills, in Old Kilpatrick parish, ! Dumbartonshire.

BRAES OF LORN, section of Kilninver parish, Argyleshire.

BRAES OF ORWELL, section of Ochil Hills in Orwell parish, Kinross-shire.

BRAES OF PETTY, upland of Petty parish, Inverness-shire.

BRAES OF PORTREE, section of Portree parish, Isle of Skye.

BRAGANESS, headland in Sandsting parish, Shetland.

BRAGAR, village in Barvas parish, Lewis, Outer Hebrides. Pop. 635.

BRAGRUM, hamlet in Methven parish, Perthshire.

BRAHAN, castellated seat, formerly of the Earls of Seaforth, in Urray parish, Ross-shire.

BRAID, hill-range, with fine view, in ; southern vicinity of Edinburgh.

BRAID, small sea-inlet in Wick parish, Caithness.

BRAIDWOOD, village, mansion, and railway station in Carluke parish, Lanarkshire. The village has a public school i with about 128 scholars. Pop., with 1 Harestanes and Thornhill, 616.

BRAIGHEMOR, bay on west side of j Harris, Outer Hebrides.

BRAINSFORD.

BRALLAIG, lake in Kilninver parish, Argylcshire.

BRAN, small river, running about 14 miles north-eastward to the Tay, opposite Dunkeld, Perthshire. It makes, in its lowermost reach, a leap of about 85 feet, and a long tumultuous cataract.


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