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BRIDGE OF MARNOCH, place, with post office under Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

BRIDGE OF MUCHALLS, place in Fetteresso parish, Kincardineshire. It has a public school with about 68 scholars.

BRIDGE OF POTARCH, place on the Dee, 1J mile east-south-east of Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeenshire.

BRIDGE OF ROY, hamlet, 10 miles north-east of Fort-William, Inverness-shire. It has a post office under Fort-William, an inn, and a public school with about 75 scholars.

BRIDGE OF TEITH, suburb of Doune, Perthshire. It has a United Presbyterian church.

BRIDGE OF TILT, village at mouth of river Tilt, adjacent to a railway viaduct, near Blair-Athole railway station, Perthshire. It has a hotel, and an Episcopalian church.

BRIDGE OF TURK, place, 7 miles west of Callander, Perthshire. It figures in Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, and has a post office under Callander.

BRIDGE OF URR, village in Kirkpatrick-Durham parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

BRIDGE OF WEIR, town, 4f miles west-north-west of Paisley, Renfrewshire. It is a seat of manufacture, and has a post office under Paisley, and a Free church. Pop. 1267.

BRIDGE OF WESTFIELD, place, with post office under Thurso, Caithness.

BRIDGETON, eastern suburb of Glasgow. It is large and mostly squalid, includes a Eublic pavilion with clock-tower erected i 1875, contains a number of factories, communicates by tramway with all parts of the city, and has a quoad sacra parish church, a Free church, a United Original Secession church, and a large public school. Pop. of quoad sacra parish, 6383 ; of registration district, 39,628.

BRIDGETON, village in Eedgorton parish, Perthshire.

BRIDGETON, seat and hill in St. Cyrus parish, Kincardineshire.

BRIDIANOCH, headland in west of Eum Island, Inner Hebrides.

BRIECH, rivulet rising in Cambusnethan parish, Lanarkshire, running 3 miles eastward to meeting point with Linlithgowshire and Edinburghshire, and proceeding 8 miles north-eastward along the boundary between these two counties to the river Almond.

BRIECH, railway station, near Briech rivulet, between Fauldhouse and West Calder.

BRIERBUSH, village in Penpont parish, Dumfriesshire.

BRIGHAM.

BRIGHTON, place, with public school, in Cupar parish, Fife.

BRIGIE, hill, 575 feet high, near Mull of Galloway, Wigtonshire.

BRIG O' BALGOWNIE, old bridge on the Don, near Old Aberdeen. BRIG 0' TRAM, feature on coast of Wick parish, Caithness.

BRIGTON, seat and hill in Kinnettles parish, Forfarshire.

BRIMMOND, hill, 859 feet high, 7 miles west-by-north of Aberdeen.

BRIMSNESS, small headland in Thurso parish, Caithness.

BRINDISTER, voe or bay, with excellent anchorage, in Sandsting parish, Shetland.

BRINDY, part of lofty hill-ridge, dividing Garioch district from Alford Vale, Aberdeenshire.

BRISBANE, seat and glen in Largs parish, Ayrshire.

BRISHMEAL, basaltic hill, with grand view, on Bracadale coast, Isle of Skye

BRISTO, old suburb, now absorbed in southern part of Edinburgh.

BRITTLE, sea-loch in Minginish district, Isle of Skye.

BROAD BAY, sea-loch, 8 miles long and 4 miles broad, in Stornoway parish, Lewis, Outer Hebrides.

BROADCHAPEL, seat near Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire.

BROADFIELD, seat in Kilmalcolm parish, Renfrewshire.

BROADFORD, village, bay, and rivulet, in Strath parish, Isle of Skye. The village stands at the bay's head and rivulet's mouth, 8 miles south-west of Kyleakin, and has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments, an inn, an Established church, and a public school with about 64 scholars.

BROADHAVEN, fishing village in Wick parish, Caithness.

BROADLAW, mountain, 2723 feet high, with grand view on north-east border of Tweedsmuir parish, Peeblesshire.

BROADMEADOWS, seat on Yarrow river, 4J miles west-by-north of Selkirk.

BROADMEADOWS, seat in Hutton parish, Berwickshire.

BROADSEA, fishing village, near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. Pop. 423.

BROATS, seat in Kirkpatrick-Fleming parish, Dumfriesshire.

BROCHEL, dilapidated strong old castle on Raasay Island, Inverness-shire.

BROCK, small affluent of the Levern, Renfrewshire.

BROCKLEHURST, hamlet in Mouswald parish, Dumfriesshire.

BROCKS BRAE, rising ground, adjacent to south-west end of St. Ninians, Stirlingshire. The 'Bore Stone,' in which Bruce planted his standard at the battle of Bannockburn, is on it.

BRODICHAN, lake in Crathie parish, Aberdeenshire.

BRODICK, bay, village, ducal seat, and quoad sacra parish in Arran Island, Buteshire. The bay is near the middle of the east coast, 14 miles west-south-west of Ardmssan, has a crescent form on a chord of about 3 miles, and is overlooked by the mouths <jf 3 glens amid grand lofty mountains. The village lies dispersedly on the bay, and has a post office, with all departments, under Ardrossan, a hotel, an iron pier of 1872, and a church. The seat, Brodick Castle, belongs to the Duke of Hamilton, stands amid ornate grounds on north side of the village, is a spacious modern edifice with lofty tower, and occupies the site of an ancient fortahce of the Lords of the Isles. The quoad sacra parish is part of Kilbride. Pop. 933.


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