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REST-AND-BE-THANKFUL
priated the vaults of the forsaken and dilapidated church
as the burying-place of themselves and their kinsfolk.
Lady Balmerino, the wife of Arthur, the sixth and
attainted Lord, resided in the village during the years
of her widowhood, and died there in 1765. The Earls
of Moray, who purchased the forfeited lands, now claim
as their mausoleum an octagonal chapter-house to the S
of the church, whose groined roof springs from a single
central pillar, and which is said to have been built
about 1435 by Sir Eobert Logan. The Episcopalians
have always, from the Revolution downward, had a
strong attachment to Restalrig. They were for years
prohibited from performing their funeral service in any
of the city or suburban burying-grounds ; so they
adopted Restalrig as their cemetery, and here in 1720
interred the body of Alexander Rose, the last legal or
more than titular bishop of Edinburgh. Here, too, is
the grave of Lord Brougham's father, as well as of many
a gallant soldier. The Second Pointed, three-bayed
choir consisted of little more than the E wall and part
of the side walls in 1836, when it was restored from
designs by Mr W. Burn, and made a chapel of ease
or mission chapel, subordinate to South Leith church.
Under the verge of St Margaret's depot was a famous
spring, called St Margaret's Well ; and some fine old
Gothic stone-work over this was removed in 1860 to a
runnel at the N foot of Salisbury Craigs. Restalrig
House, to the N of the village, is a plain substantial
mansion, in a well-wooded park of 15 acres. It was
built in 1815-17, and enlarged a few years afterwards.
The ancient mansion on the barony was a castellated
structure, opposite the W end of the church, and is now
represented by the lower walls of a plain modern house
in the village.— Ord. Bar., sh. 32, 1857.
Rest-and-be-Thankful. See Coestoephine and
Glenceoe.
Kestennet, an ancient parish of central Forfarshire,
now forming the northern district of Forfar parish,
which hence is legally known as Forfar-Restennet. A
sheet of water, called Restennet Loch, on the Rescobie
boundary, was drained at great expense, in the latter
part of last century, for the sake of obtaining a rich
supply of shell-marl in its bed. A peninsula, project-
ing into the lake from a very narrow isthmus, rose into
an eminence, which was crowned by a priory, \\ mile
ENE of Forfar. At Restennet St Bonifacius is said to
have baptized the Pietish king, Nectan, in 710, and to
have dedicated a church to St Peter (see Rosemakkie) ;
and on the site of this church David I. founded an
Augustinian priory, which Malcolm IV. made a cell of
the Abbey of Jedburgh. The roofless priory church,
repaired during 1863-66, is First Pointed in style, and
has a NW broach spire 70 feet high. It served as the
parish church of Forfar till 1591, and was afterwards
the burying-place of the families of Dempster and
Hunter. Traces remain, too, of a cloister-garth 60 feet
square. — Ord. Sxir., sh. 57, 1868.
Reston, a village in Coldingham parish, Berwick-
shire, near the right bank of Eye Water, with a station
on the North British railway at the junction of the
Berwickshire branch, 8f miles NE of Duns, 11£ NW
of Berwick, and 46-| ESE of Edinburgh. It has a post
and telegraph office under Ayton, an inn, a market
cross, a public school, and a Free church (1880 ; 260
sittings), erected at a cost of £1150. Pop. (1881) 321.
—Ord. Sur., sh. 34, 1864.
Reswallie, an estate, with a mansion, in Rescobie
parish, Forfarshire, 3 miles ENE of Forfar.
Rhea. See Kyle-Rhea.
Rhiconich, an inn in Eddrachillis parish, W Suther-
land, at the head of salt-water Loch lnchard, 41 J miles
NW of Lairg.
Rhind. See Rhynd.
Rhinna (Gael, roinn, ' a point or promontory '), a
peninsula in the SW of Islay island, Argyllshire, extend-
ing between the German Ocean and Loch Indal, com-
municating with the main body of the island by an
isthmus, between the head of Loch Gruinnard and the
upper part of Loch Indal, and terminating in a headland
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RHYND
called Rhinns Point. Its length, south-westward, is 17
miles ; and its greatest breadth is 7 miles. Its terminat-
ing point is not a headland proper, but the islet Oesay.
Rhinns, the western one of the three districts of Wig-
townshire. Known to the Romans as Chersonesus'
Novantum, it takes its present name, like the Rhinns
of Islay, from the Celtic roinn, 'a point or promontory ;'
and it forms a double peninsula, washed on the W side
by the Irish Channel, and on most of the E side by
Loch Ryan and Luce Bay. With the rest of the county
it is connected by an isthmus, 5| miles wide at the
narrowest, between the head of Loch Ryan and the
head of Luce Bay ; and it measures 28J miles in length
from N by W to S by E, 5£ miles in extreme breadth,
and about 120 square miles in area. It begins on the N
at Corsewall Point, and terminates at the S in the Mull
of Galloway, each of them crowned by a lighthouse ; it
attains a maximum altitude of 593 feet in Caienpat,
and mostly consists of lowland, which, at a comparatively
recent geological period, was clearly under marine water ;
and probably, after becoming dry, it was for some time
an island or a series of islands. The parishes comprised
within it are Kirkcolm, Leswalt, Portpatrick, and Kirk-
maiden, most of Stoneykirk, and a small part of Inch.
—Ord. Sur., shs. 7, 3, 1, 1856-63.
Rhives, a modern mansion in Kilmuir-Easter parish,
Ross-shire, 7 furlongs N of Delny station. Its late
owner, George Ross, Esq. of Pitcalnie (1803-84), held
10,618 acres in the shire, valued at £1270 per annum.
—Ord. Sur., sh. 94, 1878.
Rhonehouse. See Kelton Hill.
Rhu-Stoer or Point of Stoer, a bold rocky headland
in Assynt parish, Sutherland, terminating the peninsula
in the extreme W of the parish, and presenting to the
sea, 9J miles NW of Lochinver village, a detached mass
of sandstone, rising to the height of 530 feet. A stack,
or insulated towering sea-rock, confronting it, rises to a
height of about 250 feet, and has such a curious outline
as to seem at a distance like a large ship under stud-
ding sails.— Ord. Sur., sh. 107, 1881.
Rhu-Vaal or Rudha Mhail, a headland at the northern
extremity of Islay island, Argyllshire, flanking the W side
of the northern entrance to the Sound of Islay, 7 miles
N by W of Port Askaig. A lighthouse, erected on it in
1859 at a cost of £7437, shows a fixed red light in a
westerly direction, between the bearings of about SSW J
W and about E by S, and a white light in every other
direction, both visible at the distance of 17 nautical miles.
Rhymer's Glen aud Tower. See Huntly, Roxburgh-
shire ; and Eaelston.
Rhynd (Gael, roinn, ' point ' or ' peninsula '), a Perth-
shire parish, whose church stands 3f miles NE of
Bridge of Earn, and i\ SE of Perth, under which there
is a post office of Rhynd. It is bounded NW by Kin-
fauns, NE by Kinfauns, the Inchyra section of Kinnoull,
and St Madoes, S by Abernethy and Dunbarny, and W
by Perth. Its utmost length, from WNW to ESE, is
4 miles ; its utmost breadth is If mile ; and its area is
2893 acres, of which 175J are foreshore and 260f water.
The Tay, here 1 to 3 furlongs broad, curves 4J miles
north-eastward and south-eastward along alltheboundary
with Kinfauns, Kinnoull, and St Madoes ; and Sleepless
Inch and Balhepbum Island belong to Rhynd. The
river Eaen winds 3J miles east-by-northward to the
Tay along all the Abernethy border, though the point
where it first touches the parish and that where it
enters the Tay are only 1| mile distant as the crow flies.
E of Fingask the surface is low and flat, at no point 50
feet above sea-level ; but westward it rises to a maxi-
mum altitude of 725 feet on the summit of wooded Mosr-
okeiffe Hill at the meeting-point of Rhynd, Perth,
and Dunbarny parishes. Monereiffe Hill mainly con-
sists of greenstone ; but elsewhere the principal rock is
Old Red sandstone. The soil in the NW is sharp and
gravelly, in the SE is chiefly clay, intermixed here and
there with very fine black loam. About 100 acres are
under wood ; and nearly all the rest oi the parish is in
a state of high cultivation. At Grange of Elcho, near
the western border, David Lindsay of Glenesk founded,