Gazetteer of Scotland

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the interior consists of wild uplands,
mostly declining toward Loch Shin. That
lake intersects the greater part of the
interior south-eastward through the centre,
and a number of minor lakes lie among the
uplands. An extensive process of reclama-
tion of moor was commenced in 1873 by
the Duke of Sutherland, and cost for some
years about £24 per acre. Knock-a-chath,
' the hill of fight,' has a number of tumuli,
and is believed to have been a battle-scene
between the Sutherlands and the Mackays.
There are 2 schools with capacity for 120
scholars.
LAIRG, hill-pass in Eddertoun parish,
Ross-shire.
LAIRNEY, seat near Kincardine-O'Neil
village, Aberdeenshire.
LAITHERS, estate in Turriff parish,
Aberdeenshire.
LAEEFIELD, seat and public school, the
latter with about 75 scholars, in G-len-
urquhart, Inverness-shire.
LAKEHEAD, place, with public school,
in Kirkmahoe parish, Dumfriesshire.
LAMANCHA, hamlet and seat, 20£ miles
by railway south-by-west of Edinburgh.
The hamlet has a post office designated of
Peeblesshire, a railway station, and a
public school with about 63 scholars.
LAMB, headland, with large Picts' house,
in south-east of Stronsay Island, Orkney.
LAMB, islet, 1J mile north-west of
North Berwick, Haddingtonshire.
LAMBA, island in Yell Sound, Shetland.
LAMBANESS, headland at north-east
extremity of Unst Island, Shetland.
LAMBANESS, small headland on west
side of Otterswick Bay, Sanday Island,
Orkney.
LAMBERTON, ancient parish, now part
of Mordington, on south-east border of
Berwickshire. Its church was the mar-
riage-place of King James IV., and the
scene of an international convention in
1573 ; and its toll-bar was long a place of
runaway marriages in the east, like Gretna
in the west.
LAMBHILL, village in Maryhill parish,
near Glasgow. Pop. 298.
LAMBHILL, estate in Avondale parish,
Lanarkshire.
LAMBHILL, place, with quondam slate
quarry, in Forgue parish, Aberdeenshire.
LAMBHOGA, hill, with turbary, in
Fetlar parish, Shetland.
LAMBHOLM, island in Holm Sound,
Orkney. Pop. 8.
LAMGARROCH, lofty hill in Tynron
parish, Dumfriesshire.
LAMINGTON, village and parish in
upper ward of Lanarkshire. The village
stands on burn of its own name adjacent
to the Clyde, 10 miles south-south-east of
Carstairs Junction, is a decayed ancient
place, and has a post office, with money
order department, under Biggar, a rail-
way station, a church which retained till
recent times the old ' cutty stool ' and
'jouggs,' and a public school with about
50 scholars. — The parish measures about
7| miles by 3f, and comprises 12,820 acres.
Eeal property in 1880-81, £7921. Pop.
316. The surface includes some fertile
alluvial lands, but is mostly hilly and
bleak. Lamington barony belonged to the
wife of Sir "William Wallace ; and Laming-
ton Tower on it, once a splendid ancient edi-
fice, is now a small ruin not far from the
village. Other antiquities are Caledonian
works on Arbory Hill, three Roman camps
at Whitehill, and a number of other camps
and a moat in other parts.
LAMLASH, village and bay on east coast of
Arran Island, Buteshire. The village stands
at the bay's head, 5^ miles south-south-
east of Brodick, and has a post office, with
money order and telegraph departments,
designated of Arran, a banking office, a
hotel, a good stone pier, a parochial church,
and 2 public schools with about 125 scholars.
Pop. 219. — The bay measures about 3 miles
across the mouth, has a horse-shoe outline,
is more than half occupied in outer part
by Holy Isle, enjoys complete shelter
from every wind, and is a remarkably
excellent refuge-harbour.
LAMLOCH, lake in Cadder parish, Lan-
arkshire.
LAMMERLAW, summit of Lammer-
moors, 8$ miles south of Haddington. It
has a height of 1732 feet above sea-level,
is the loftiest of the Lammermoors, and
gives name to the entire range.
LAMMERMOORS, hill-range on mutual
border of Haddingtonshire and Berwick-
shire. It extends from vale of Gala river
eastward to German Ocean ; is 26 miles
long, and averagely about 10^ miles broad ;
and was formerly covered with forest, but is
now for the most part bleak sheep-pasture.
LAMNA, island in south-west of Yell
Sound, Shetland.
LAMONT, seat and bay on west side of
peninsula between Loch Fyne and Kyles
of Bute, Argyleshire.
LANARK, town and parish in upper
ward of Lanarkshire. The town stands
on a fine high slope, about J mile from
right bank of the Clyde, 4J miles south-
west of Carstairs Junction, and 25 by road
south-east-by-east of Glasgow; is believed
to have sprung from the Roman station
Colonia ; was the meeting-place of a
Scottish parliament in 978, the earliest
one on record ; had a royal castle, occa-
sionally occupied by "William the Lion
and other kings ; figured prominently in
the history of Sir William Wallace ; was
one of the four original Scottish royal
burghs ; ranked long as the capital of
the country on the Clyde and its affluents
down to Dumbartonshire and Ayrshire ;
ranks now as the capital of upper ward of
Lanarkshire, and as a burgh uniting with
Hamilton, Airdrie, Linlithgow, and Falkirk
in sending a member to Parliament ; gives
the title of earl to the Duke of Hamilton ;
is engirt, to a far distance, by richly pic-
turesque country ; attracts multitudes of