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BUTE (KYLES OF).

BUTELAND, estate in Currie parish, Edinburghshire.

BUTE (NORTH), parish containing Port-Bannatyne or Kamesburgh village, and comprising the northern part of Bute Island and all Inchmarnock, Buteshire. Acres, 14,764. Keal property in 1880-81, 12,196. Pop. 1192. The post office is Kamesburgh, under Rothesay ; the churches are Established and Free ; and 2 public schools, with accommodation for 263 scholars, belong jointly to it and the landward parts of Rothesay parish.

BUTESHIRE, insular county in Firth of Clyde. It comprises the islands of Bute, Arran, Big Cumbray, Little Cumbray, Holy Isle, Inchmarnock, and Pladda, and has an area of 225 square miles. Real property in 1880-81, 115,991. Pop. in 1871, 16,977; in 1881, 17,666. The only towns are Rothesay and Millport, and the only village with more than 500 inhabitants is Port-Bannatyne. The county, inclusive of Rothesay burgh, sends one member to Parliament.

BUTTERGASK, village in Ardoch parish, Perthshire.

BUTTERSTONE, village, seat, and lake in Caputh parish, Perthshire. The village has a post office under Dunkeld.

BUTT OF LEWIS, bold rugged promontory at northern extremity of Lewis, Outer Hebrides. A lighthouse is on it, with fixed light visible at the distance of 18 nautical miles.

BUTTURICH, modern seat, on site of large ancient fortalice, near Loch Lomond, 2 miles north of Balloch, Dumbartonshire.

BUXBURN, place on burn of its own name, 5 miles north-west of Aberdeen. It has a railway station, an Episcopalian chapel of 1880, and a public school with about 112 scholars.

BYRES, estate, 3 miles north-north-west of Hamilton. It gives the title of baron to the Earl of Haddington.

BYTH, seat in King Edward parish, Aberdeenshire.

CAAF, affluent of the Garnock, Ayrshire.

CABRACH, parish in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire, averagely about 11 miles west-south-west of Huntly. It has a post office under Aberdeen. Its length is 12 miles ; its greatest breadth 8 miles ; its area 14,622 acres in Aberdeenshire, and 19,481 acres in Banffshire. Real property in 1880-81, 1347 and 2107. Pop. 312 and 370. The entire surface is mountainous, and the Buck of Cabrach, on its eastern boundary, has a height of 2368 feet above sea-level. The churches are Established and United Presbyterian. There are 2 public schools for 170 scholars, and 1 of them and a class-room are new.

CACHILRIGH, hill in Torphichen parish, Linlithgowshire'.

CADBOLL,ancientcastle,nowrepresented by only two or three vaults, on coast of Fearn parish, Ross-shire.

CADDAM, extinct village in Coupar-Angus parish, Perthshire.

CADDEN, extinct old castle on peninsular rock in Kinneff parish, Kincardineshire.

CADDER, affluent of the Avon in Avondale parish, Lanarkshire.

CADDER, village and parish on north border of Lanarkshire. The village stands adjacent to the site of a fort of Antoninus' Wall, near the river Kelvin, 5 miles north-north-east of Glasgow, and is a small scattered place, but contains the parochial church, erected in 1830, and a public school with about 124 scholars. The parish contains also the villages of Bishopbriggs, Chryston, Auchinairn, Garnkirk, Mollin-burn, Auchenloch, Muirhead, and Moodiesburn, and parts of Lenzie and Garnqueen. Its length is about 10 miles ; its greatest breadth about 3| miles ; its area 13,969 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 49,508. Pop., quoad civilia, 6965; quoad sacra, 2934. The surface is all low, and either level or but slightly undulated. The soils are exceedingly various. Coal, limestone, and fine sandstone are more or less plentiful ; and rich extensive beds of fire-clay lie around Garnkirk. The chief seats are Gadder House, Garnkirk, Gartloch, Springfield, Bedlay, Robroyston, Gartferry, and Glaudhall; and principal objects of antiquarian interest are vestiges of Antoninus' Wall and site of the house in which Sir William Wallace was betrayed. The churches are 2 Established, 2 Free, and a United Presbyterian. There are 7 schools for 1213 scholars, and 3 of them for 870 are new.

CADDON, affluent of the Tweed, draining the part of Stow parish within Selkirkshire.

CADDONFOOT, quoad sacra parish around influx of the Caddon to the Tweed, averagely 4J miles west-south-west of Galashiels. It contains Clovenfords village, with post office under Galashiels, and has a church, enlarged in 175, and a new public school with accommodation for 135 scholars. Pop. 693.

CADZOW, burn running from Glassford through Hamilton to the Clyde ; village and quoad sacra parish on Hamilton part of that burn ; and ruined castellated seat of ancestors of the Duke of Hamilton on Avon river, 1 mile south-south-east of Hamilton. Pop., of the village, 675; of the quoad sacra parish, 7163.

CAERBANTORIGUM, ancient Caledonian fort on hill with very extensive view in Kirkcudbright parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.

CAERKETAN, one of the Pentland Hills, in Colinton parish, Edinburghshire.

CAERLANRIG, tract in Teviothead parish, Roxburghshire.

CAERLAVEROCK, peninsular parish, be-tween the Nith and the Lochar, on the coast of Dumfriesshire. It contains Glencaple and Bankend villages, each with post office under Dumfries ; contains also 4 smaller villages, and part of Kelton. Its length is about 6 miles ; its greatest breadth about 2J miles ; its area 5664 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 9086. Pop. 1046. The south-eastern part is low and level ; and the middle and north-western parts are an elongated hill, descending gradually to the Nith and to the Lochar. Conheath House is a chief residence. Vestiges of Caledonian and Roman works are on the hill. Caerlaverock Castle, one of the grandest baronial ruins in Scotland, stands near the mouth of the Nith ; was erected about 1420 on site of a previous strong castle ; served both as an important for-tress and a noble residence; forms three sides of a triangle with interior open court ; exhibits much beauty of architecture and sculpture ; is so well preserved as to retain a comparatively fresh aspect ; and appears to have been in some respects, though not in all, the prototype of Sir Walter Scott's 'Ellangowan' in his Guy Mannering. The grave and monument of the person whose popular soubriquet gave title to Sir Walter's Old Mortality are in the parochial burying-ground. The churches are Established and Free, and the latter is in Glencaple. The public school is called Hutton Hall, and has about 113 scholars.


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