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BRODIE, railway station and mansion, Similes west-by-south of Forres,Elginshire.

BRODIESORD, place in Fordyce parish, Banffshire. It has a public school with about 55 scholars.

BROGAR BRIDGE, place at southern extremity of Loch Stenness, Orkney.

BROICH, seat and burn in Kippen parish, Stirlingshire.

BROLUM, sea-loch on south-east coast of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.

BROMLAND, seat in Troqueer parish, j Kirkcudbrightshire.

BRONACH, burn in Laggan parish, Inverness-shire.

BRONY, vale in Ellon parish, Aberdeenshire.

BROOM, village in Dyke parish, Elginshire.

BROOM, island in the Spey, in Knockando parish, Elginshire.

BROOM, sea-loch, 16 miles long, on west coast of Ross-shire.

BROOM, mountain, 2302 feet high, near head of Glenisla, Forfarshire.

BROOM, farm, said to have been the scene of a severe repulse of Robert Bruce by the English, in Cummertrees parish, Dumfriesshire.

BROOMHALL, seat of the Earl of Elgin, near the Forth, in Dunfermline parish, Fife.

BROOMHILL, seat near Larkhall, Lanarkshire.

BROOMHILL, lake near Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire.

BROOMHILL, railway station, 3 miles south-south-west of Grantown, Elginshire.

BROOMHILL, estate, with home for incurables, near Kirkintilloch, Dumbartonshire. It was purchased for 14,000, and the home on it was opened in 1875.

BROOMHOLM, seat, thought to be on site of ancient Caledonian town, 2 miles south of Langholm, Dumfriesshire.

BROOMHOUSE, village in Old Monkland parish, 6 miles by road south-east of Glasgow. It has a railway station. Pop. 371.

BROOMHOUSE, seat in Edrom parish, Berwickshire.

BROOMIEKNOWE, village, with railway station, 1 mile west-south-west of Esk-luink, Edinburghshire.

BROOMIEKNOWE, hamlet in Heriot parish, Edinburghshire.

BROOMIELAW, north side of harbour, Glasgow.

BROOMKNOLL, part of Airdrie, Lanarkshire.

BROOMLANDS, hamlet in Inchinnan parish, Renfrewshire.

BROOMLEE, railway station, serving for West Lin ton, Peeblesshire.

BROOMLEY, seat near Alexandria, Dumbartonshire.

BROOM (LITTLE), sea-loch, 8$ miles long, separated by only a narrow ridge from Loch Broom, Ross-shire.

BROOMRIG, seat on the Nith, in Holywood parish, Dumfriesshire.

BRORA, river, lake, and village in south-east of Sutherland. The river runs about 24 miles south-eastward, along a picturesque glen to the sea, at 4^ miles north-east of Golspie. The lake is an expansion of the lower reach of the river, 4 miles long, and looking to be a chain of 3 lakes. The village stands at the river's mouth, adjoins a remarkable coal-field, and has a post office with all departments designated of Sutherlandshire, a railway station, a banking office, and a small harbour. Pop. 579.

BROTHER, lake in Mearns parish, Renfrewshire.

BROTHER, small island, near south coast of Yell, Shetland.

BROTHERSTONE, hill, 1362 feet high, 4 miles south-east of Borthwick, Edinburghshire.

BROTHERTON, seat in Benholm parish, Kincardineshire.

BROTHOCK, rivulet entering the sea at Arbroath, Forfarshire.

BROUGH, fishing hamlet in Dunnet parish, Caithness.

BROUGH, seat in Fetlar Island, Shetland.

BROUGH, semi-insular headland, apparently once a rock fortification, on north-west coast of Birsay parish, Orkney.

BROUGH, dilapidated Scandinavian castle, on north coast of Delting parish, Shetland.

BROUGHTON, village and parish in west of Peeblesshire. The village stands on a burn of its own name, 5 miles east of Biggar, and has a Free church and a public school. The parish is properly threefold, Broughton, Glenholm, and Kilbucho, contains Rachan Mill, with post office under Biggar, and measures 9J by 5^ miles. Acres, 18,065. Real property in 1880-81, 9574. Pop. 665. The surface comprises 3 vales, traversed by burns to Biggar water, mostly flanked by hill ranges, and 2 of them closed at the head by lofty mountains. The seats are Broughton Place, Mossfennan, Quarter, and Rachan. The parochial church is in Kilbucho, and public schools are in Kilbucho and Glenholm.

BROUGHTON, old suburb, now absorbed in New Town of Edinburgh.

BROUGHTY FERRY, town and 2 quoad sacra parishes, on south border of Forfarshire. The town stands 011 Firth of Tay, 3 miles east of Dundee ; connects rail-ways from the west, the north, and the north-east with the ferry to Tayport ; is a favourite watering-place, with numerous villas and several mansions, and has a post office, with all departments, under Dundee, 2 banking offices, 3 hotels, a renovated old castle, a monument of 1860 to Dr. Thomas Dick, 2 Established churches, 2 Free churches, 3 United Presbyterian churches, Congregational and Baptist chapels, an Episcopalian church, a Good Templars' hall of 1874, and 12 schools with accommodation for 1305 scholars. 4 of the churches Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Episcopalian are recent and handsome, and 2 of the schools and an enlargement for 300 scholars are new. Pop. of the town, 7407 ; of the 2 parishes, Bimighty Ferry and St. Stephens, 5549 and 1836.


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