CATHERINE'S (ST. ), ferry on Loch Fyne, opposite Inverary, Argyleshire.
CATHKIN, seat in Carmunnock parish, and hill on mutual border of Carmunnock and Rutherglen parishes, Lanarkshire. The hill commands a magnificent view.
CATHLAW, seat and hill in Torphichen parish, Linlithgowshire.
CATLAW, mountain, 2196 feet high, in Kingoldrum parish, Forfarshire.
CATRAIL, military work, generally sup-posed to have been constructed by the Romanized Caledonians as a defence against the Saxons, and extending from vicinity of Galashiels southward to vicinity of western end of Cheviot Hills. It consisted of a fosse and a double rampart from 20 to 24 feet broad, aided at intervals by hill-forts ; and it is still distinct or traceable in several parts.
CATRINE, town and quoad sacra parish in Ayrshire. The town stands on Ayr river, 2 miles east-south-east of Mauchline ; was founded in 1787, as a seat of cotton manufacture ; is built on a regular plan, with central square and streets crossing one another at right angles ; and has a post office, with money order department, under Mauchline, a banking office, a hotel, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Evangelical Union churches, and a public school with about 316 scholars. Pop. of both town and parish, 2638. Catrine House, in the vicinity, figures in the biography of Prof. Dugald Stewart and the poet Burns.
CATSTANE, monumental stone, commemorative of a battle between Kenneth and Constantino in 995, on Almond river, in Kirkliston parish, Edinburghshire.
CATTER, seat in Kilmaronock parish, Dumbartonshire.
CAULDCHAPEL, farm, with ancient camp and tumulus, in Wandell parish, Lanarkshire.
CAULDCLEUCH, mountain, 1996 feet high, on mutual border of Teviothead and Castleton parishes, Roxburghshire.
CAULDHAME, hamlet in section of Kippen parish, within Perthshire.
CAULDRON, lake in Dryfesdale parish, Dumfriesshire.
CAULDSHIELDS, lake in section of Galashiels parish, within Roxburghshire.
CAULDSTANE, pass through Pentland Hills, south-west of East Cairn, Edinburghshire.
CAUSEWAYEND, railway station, 5 miles south-west of Borrowstownness, Linlithu'owshire.
CAUSEWAYEND, place, with public school, in Mid-Calder parish, Edinburghshire.
CAUSEWAYHEAD, village, 1J mile north of Stirling. It has a post office under Stirling, a railway station, and a public school with about 110 scholars. Pop. 370.
CAUSEWAYSIDE, suburb of Tollcross, Lanarkshire.
CAUSEWAY-STONES, village in Blantyre parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 464.
CAVA, island in Orphir parish, Orkney.
CAVENS, seat in Kirkbean parish, Kirkcudbrightshire. A castellated residence of the Regent Morton stood on a spot near.
CAVE OF GOLD, basaltic cavern near Loch Staffin, Isle of Skye.
CAVE OF THE KETTLE, coast cavern, with vertical shaft discharging lofty jet d'eau, at Tighary Point, in North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
CAVERS, parish, containing the post office village of Denholm, in Roxburghshire. Its length is nearly 12 miles ; its breadth, in some parts, not much more than 2 miles ; its area 18,254 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 15,896. Pop. 1318. The Teviot bounds its north-west side, and the Rule its north-east end. The surface near these streams is partly rich alluvial land ; farther back is a beautiful assemblage of undulation, dale, ravine, and hill, terminating in part of Ruberslaw Mountain ; in the extreme south, is mostly bleak, moorish, and mountainous. Cavers House is the only mansion. The churches are Established, Free, and Congregational. There are 3 schools for Cavers and Kirkton, with accommodation for 467 scholars, and 2 of them and enlargements with accommodation for 291 are new.
CAVERS-CARRE, seat in Bowden parish, Roxburghshire.
CAVERTON, village, 4| miles south-south-east of Kelso, Roxburghshire. It has a public school with about 56 scholars.
CAVERTON EDGE, extensive moor near Caverton village, Roxburghshire. It was formerly used for the Kelso races.
CAWDOR, village in Nairnshire, and parish partly also in Inverness-shire. The village stands 5J miles south-west-by-south of Nairn ; has a post office under Nairn, an Established church, a Free church, and a public school with about 99 scholars, and gives the titles of baron and earl to a branch of the family of Campbell. The parish extends about 3J miles along Nairn river, varies in breadth there from about 1 mile to 5 miles, and has an offset across Findhorn river to the extent of more than 16 miles. Acres, in Nairnshire, 27,414 ; in Inverness-shire, 1952. Real property in 1880-81, 4500 and 599. Pop. 959 and 111. The tract along the Nairn, to the_ breadth of about a mile, is cultivated plain, and the surface thence rises into ranges of considerable hills. Cawdor Castle, partly a grand structure of 14th century, is the seat of Earl Cawdor, was a hiding-place of Lord Lovat after the battle of Culloden, and is traditionally but foolishly alleged to have been the scene of the murder of King Duncan by Macbeth. The churches are Established and Free, and there are 2 new public schools with accommodation for 176 scholars.
