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bold rugged appearance, with rocks broken, hollowed,
and splintered by the action of the sea ; and has, at its
western point, a romantic natural arch called the Eye.
A lighthouse on the Butt, built about 1S63, shows a
fixed bight, visible 18 nautical miles ; and commands,
from its light-room, a magnificent view along the E and
W coasts of Lewis to Broad Bay and Dalbeg, and across
the sea to the mountainous coasts of Ross-shire and
Sutherland.
Butturich. See Baturich.
Buxburn, a Donside hamlet in Newhills parish, Aber-
deenshire, with a station on the Great North of Scot-
land, 4 miles NW of Aberdeen. At it are corn and
paper mills, a public school, and St Machar's Episcopal
church (1880 ; 300 sittings ; cost, £1800), a cruciform
Transition edifice. See Auohmill.
Buy, a sea-loch or bay on the S side of Mull island,
Argyllshire. It opens 3 miles ENE of Carsaig, and 11
WSW of the S end of Kerrera island ; penetrates the land
3 miles north-eastward ; is overhung, at its head, by Ben
Buy (2352 feet) and Creachbeinn (2344) ; has, on a low
rock at its head, an ancient square tower, called Lochbuy
Castle, inhabited so late as 1740 ; and is flanked, at the
E side of its mouth, by Laggan Point, containing the
long, spacious, ramified cavern called Odin's Cave, sup-
posed to have been a retreat of the Scandinavian pirates,
in the times when they swept the Hebridean seas.
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Bynack. See Boynag.
Byreburn, a mining locality on the mutual border of
Langholm and Canonbie parishes, Dumfriesshire. Coal
of a peculiar quality, intermediate between slate and
pitch coal, is worked here ; and a sandstone of greyish-
white and yellowish-grey colour, with many vegetable
moulds or fossils, is associated with the coal.
Byrecleugh, a place in Longformacus parish, Berwick-
shire, on Dye Water, near the boundary with Hadding-
tonshire, 4| miles W of Longformacus village. A shoot-
ing-bos of the Duke of Roxburghe, a curious old house
adjacent to a farm hamlet, is bere. A summit of the
Lammermuirs, rising to an altitude of 1335 feet above
sea-level, and spiring on a range called Byrecleugh Ridge,
is about a mile NW of the shooting-box. A cairn called
the Mutiny Stones, 240 feet long, 75 broad, and 18
high, stands on the south-eastern slope of the ridge, and
is thought to commemorate a desperate conflict, in 1402,
between the Earl of Dunbar and Hepburn of Hailes.
Byth, a hamlet, a mansion, and a village, in King-
Edward parish, Aberdeenshire. The hamlet lies on the
NE border of the parish, 8 miles NE of Turriff. The
mansion stands j mile SW of the hamlet, was built in
1593 by Deacon Forbes of Byth, and has been modern-
ised and enlarged. The village stands If mile SSE of
the hamlet, bears the name of Newbyth, and will be
separately noticed under that name.
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CAAF, a rivnlet of NV Ayrshire. It rises on the con-
fines of Kilbride and Largs parishes, runs 4 miles
south-eastward through a tame moorish tract of
country chiefly within the western border of Dairy
parish ; goes then about 2J miles eastward along the
boundary between Dairy parish on the left and Ardrossan
and Kilwinning parishes on the right ; rushes eventually
along a deep rocky dell, in a series of rapids, with a fine
terminal cascade more than 20 feet in leap ; and falls into
the Garnock about -J mile below Dairy town. Its trouting
has been spoilt by poachers using nets and quicklime.
Cabrach, a hamlet in Aberdeenshire, and a parish
partly also in Banffshire. The hamlet lies near the
right bank of the Deveron, 4 miles N of that river's
source, 11 WSW of Kennethmont station, and 17 SW of
Huntly, and has a post office under Aberdeen, and fairs
for sheep, cattle, and horses on the Thursday of July
after Glass and the Friday of October before Kenneth-
mont.
The parish is bounded NE by Glass and Gartly, E
by Rhynie, Auchindoir, and Kildrummy, SE by detached
portions of Towie and Strathdon, S by Glenbucket, SW
and W by Inveraven, and NW by Mortlach. Its
greatest length, from N to S is 10 miles, its greatest
breadth is 8J miles, and its land area is 34,103 acres.
The surface is prevailingly mountainous, pastoral, and
bleak. The Buck of Cabrach (2368 feet) is on the
eastern boundary. A continuous ridge goes from the
Buck round all the south-eastern and southern boundary ;
another round all the south-western, western, and north-
western boundary, including Round Hill (2187), Cairn
na Bruar (2240), Cooks Cairn (2478), Cam AUt a'Chlai-
ginn (2036), Scaut Hill (1987), Hill of Clais nan Earb
(1717), Cairn Chrome (1651), Meikle Balloch Hill (1521),
Garbet Hill (1645), and Craig Watch (1540) ; and an
intermediate ridge goes from the southern boundary 5
miles through the centre of the parish, dividing its Aber-
deenshire section from the southern part of its Banffshire
section, and culminating in Threestone Hill (2065), Hill
of Cairnbrallan (2029), Round Hill (1872), and Meikle
Firbriggs (1776). The Deveron, rising in the extreme
S of the Aberdeenshire section, and gathering numerous
head-streams thence, passes into the Banffshire section,
and runs there partly in the interior, partly on the eastern
boundary ; its valley, where it quits this parish, sinks to
800 feet above sea-level. The Blackwater rises in the
extreme S of the Banffshire section, and runs about 8
miles, entirely within that section, to the Deveron, 2J
miles N by W of Cabrach hamlet. Bluish-grey lime-
stone and greywacke are the prevailing rocks ; and Upper
Cabrach is traversed by a vein of serpentine. A deer
forest of the Duke of Richmond, with a shooting lodge,
is on the Blackwater ; and a shooting-box of another pro-
prietor is at Lesmurdie Cottage. A residence or hunting
seat of Malcolm Ceannmor is traditionally said to have
been at a place still called King's Haugh on Spenwell
Farm. The forces of Huntly and Errol mustered in
Cabrach before the battle of Glenlivet (1594). Aldi-
valloch, If mile WSW of the hamlet, is celebrated
througb the spirited song, Boy's Wife of Aldivalloch,
by Mrs Grant of Carron (1745-1814). The Duke of Rich-
mond and Gordon is chief proprietor, and 3 other land-
owners hold a yearly value of less than £100. Cabrach
is in the presbytery of Alford and synod of Aberdeen ;
the living amounts to £180. The parish church (230
sittings) was built in 1786, a new UP. church in 1873 ;
and 2 public schools, called Upper and Lower Cabrach,
with respective accommodation for 110 and 90 children,
had (1879) an average attendance of 43 and 40, and
grants of £3S, lis. and £54, 4s. Valuation of Aberdeen-
shire section (1881) £1346, 17s. ; of Banffshire section
(1S82) £2124, 19s. 2d. Pop. (1801) 684, (1831) 978,
(1851) 750, (1861) 794, (1871) 773, (1SS1) 682, of whom
370 were in Banffshire. — Ord. Sur., shs. 75, 85, 1876.
Cadboll, an estate in Fearn and Eddertoun parishes,
Ross-shire, on the reach of Dornoch Firth above Meikle
Ferry, 7 miles WNW of Tain. A very ancient baronial
castle stood on it, adjacent to the Firth, but has all dis-
appeared except two or three vaults.
Caddel, a burn in the N of Ardrossan parish, Ayr-
shire, running to the Caaf.
Cadden, an ancient fortification on the coast of Kin-
neff parish, Kincardineshire, on the top of a peninsular
rock near Kinneff Castle. It appears to have had, on
the land side, a moat and a drawbridge.
Cadder, a small village and a parish of NW Lanark-
shire. The village stands on the site of a fort of An-
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