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FOSS
guineas, whose rights are for life ; in the clerical members
of Chanonry presbytery ; and in the provost of Fortrose.
In 1882 it had 62 scholars, with a teaching-staff of 2.
Eosemarkie Public school, under the school-board, con-
sisting of a chairman and 4 members, had in 1882 a
teaching-staff of 2, and 81 scholars. There is also an
infant school for girls. The Mechanics' Institute pos-
sesses an excellent library and a reading-room. The
town contains an office of the Caledonian bank and
agencies of 7 insurance companies. There are 3 chief
hotels. The Black Isle Steam Shipping Company's
steamer runs between Inverness and Fortrose twice a
day on Mondays, AYeduesdays, and Thursdays, and once
on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, during summer,
and once a day in winter ; whilst other steamers afford
communication with Inverness 2 or 3 times a week. A
mail-gig also runs daily to Inverness. The nearest
station is Fort George on the Highland railway, 6 miles
to the ESE ; but to reach it, the Fort George or Arder-
sier Ferry has to be crossed. The harbour of Fortrose
is safe and convenient, and was thoroughly repaired
in 1881 ; and at the same date a new wooden pier,
about 240 yards long, was erected. Steamers can enter
the old harbour only at certain states of the tide; but they
can now touch at this pier at any time. 'There are
markets at Fortrose for cattle, grain, and farm produce
every month, on the Monday preceding the Muir of Ord
market, except in April and Jime, when the dates are
respectively the first and the third Wednesdays of the
month. Hiring markets are combined with the above
in April, August, and November.
The burgh has an independent revenue, besides enjoy-
ing the benefit of various charitable mortifications, so
Seal of Fortrose.
that the rate of taxation is low. The burgh has adopted
the Lindsay Police Act, under which the council, consist-
ing of provost, 3 bailies, dean of guild, treasurer, and 9
councillors are commissioners. The same body are also
commissioners for the harbour, under a provisional order
for its management. The sheriff-substitute of Dingwall
holds quarterly circuit small-debt courts at Fortrose;
and a justice of peace court is held on the first Wednesday
of each month. With Inverness, Forres, and Nairn,
Fortrose returns a member to parliament, its parlia-
mentary and municipal constituency numbering 141 in
1882, when the annual value of real property within
the burgh amounted to £3418, its corporation revenue
being £293. Pop. (1821) 932, (1841) 1082, (1851) 1148,
(1861) 928, (1871) 911, (1881) 869 ; of royal burgh be-
yond the parliamentary limits (1881) 117; of Fortrose
quoad sacra parish (1881) i92.— Ord. Sur., sh. 84, 1876.
See the Rev. J. M. Neale's Ecclesiological Notes on Ross
(Lend. 1848), and A. E. Scott's Illustrations of Fortrose
Cathedral (Edinb. Architect. Assoc, 1873).
Foss, a hamlet and a qiwad sacra parish in Dull
parish, Perthshire. The hamlet stands near the right
liank of the river Tummel, 1 J mile WSW of the head of
Loch Tummel, and 12 miles W of its post-town, Pit-
lochry. It has a fair on the second Tuesday of March,
FOTHRINGHAM
old style. Foss House, | mile nearer the loch, is a seat
of Sir Eobert Menzies, Bart, of Castle-Menzies. The
parish, constituted by ecclesiastical authority in 1830,
by civil authority in 1845, is in the presbytery of Weem
and synod of Perth and Stirling ; its minister's stipend
is £120. Pop. (1871) 270, (1881) 2W.—0rd. Sur., sh.
55, 1869.
Fossoway, a parish chiefly in Perthshire, but partly
in Kinross-.shire, containing the villages of Blairingone,
Crook of Devon, and Carnbo, and comprising the
ancient parishes of Fossoway and Tulliebole, united
about 1614. Very irregular in outline, it is bounded N
by Dunning, NE by Orwell, E by Kinross, SE by Cleish,
S by Torryburn and Saline in Fife, SW by Clackmannan
and Dollar in Clackmannanshire, and W by Muckart
and Glendevon. Its length, from ENE to WSW, varies
between 2J and 8| miles ; its utmost breadth, from N to
S, is 5 J miles ; and its area is 17, 356 J acres, of which
6904J belong to the Kinross-shire or Tulliebole section.
On or close to the Glendevon and Muckart border, the
' crystal Devon ' winds 9g miles south-eastward and
west-south-westward, from just above Downhill to near
Pitgober, the point where it first touches and that
where it leaves this parish being only 4J miles distant
as the crow flies. During this course it exhibits the
finest of its famous sceuery, described in our articles
Devil's Mill, Rumbling-Bridge, and Caldron Linn.
Other chief streams are Gairney Water, which falls into
the Devon below the Caldron Linn, and South Queich
Water, running to Loch Leven. Perennial springs of pure
water are everywhere abundant ; a petrifying spring is
on the lands of Devonshaw ; and a medicinal spring,
erroneously known as Dollar Water, is on the lands of
Blairingone. The surface declines along the Devon to
close on 100 feet above sea-level, and S of Crook of
Devon, it, though undulating, nowhere much exceeds
600 feet ; but northwards it rises to 734 feet near
Knoekintinny, 1496 at Lendrick Hill, 1134 at Cloon,
1573 at Mellock Hill, and 1621 at Innerdouny Hill—
srmimits these of the Ochils. The rocks are partly
eruptive, partly carboniferous. Trap and sandstone are
quarried in several places ; coal has been worked in three
mines, ironstone in one ; and limestone occurs in con-
nection with both, whilst copper ore, not rich enough
to repay the cost of working, is found near Rumbling-
Bridge. The soils are variously clayey, loamy, gravelly,
and mossy ; and some are fertile, others very inferior.
Fully three-fifths of all the land are regularly or occa-
sionally in tillage, and some 650 acres are under wood.
Aldie and Tulliebole castles are prominent objects, both
separately noticed ; mansions are Devonshaw and Glen
Tower ; and an old circular ruin on the lands of Aldie,
an oblong moated mound on the barony of Coldrain,
the Gallow Knowe adjacent to Crook of Devon village,
and the Monk's Grave between the lands of Gartwhinean
and those of Pitfar, are chief antiquities. Fonr pro-
prietors hold each an annual value of £500 and upwards,
23 of between £100 and £500, 9 of from £50 to £100,
and 18 of from £20 to £50. Giving off a portion to the
quoad sacra parish of Blairingone, this parish is in the
presbytery of Kinross and synod of Fife ; the living is
worth £265. The parish church, near Crook of Devon
village, was built in 1806, and contains 525 sittings.
There is also a Free church of Fossoway ; and two public
schools, Carnbo and Fossoway, with respective accommo-
dation for 88 and 170 children, had (1881) an average
attendance of 42 and 77, and gi-ants of £52, 12s. and
£51, 4s. 2d. Valuation (1882) £8782, 5s. 8d. Pop.
(1801) 1312, (1831) 1576, (1841) 1724, (1861) 1584,
(1871) 1461, (1881) 1267, of whom 772 belonged to the
Perthshire section, and 934 to the ecclesiastical parish
of Fossoway.— Ord Sur., shs. 40, 39, 1867-69.
Fothringham, a Scottish Baronial mansion of 1859,
designed by the late David Bryce, in Inverarity parish,
Forfarshire, at the southern base of wooded Fothringham
Hill (800 feet), 6 miles S by E of Forfar. It is a seat of
WalterThos. Jas. Scrymsoure-Fothringham,Esq. of Pow-
RIE, Fothringham, and Tealing (b. 1862; sue. 1864),
who owns 12,529 acres in the county, valued at £13,400
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