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on the right bank of the river Ythan. Schoolmas-
ter's stipend £25 13s. 4(1.; fees, &c. £12 7s. 6d.
Two dame schools are occasionally kept.
LOGIE-COEDSTONE, a parish in the district
ofCromar, Aberdeenshire; composed of the parishes
of Logie and Coldstone, united in 1C18. It is
bounded on the north by Strathdon and Towie ;
on the east by Tarland and Coul; on the south by
Glenmuick; and on the west by Strathdon. The
length from east to west is about 6 miles : the breadth
may be stated at 3k miles; but it is narrow in the
middle. Houses 2(14. Assessed property, in 1815,
£2,353. Population, in 1801, 861; in 1831, 910.
The surface is interspersed, in the interior, with a
number of small hills and large moors, abounding
with game : on the hill of Morven, ptarmigan and
white hares are found. A proportion of the soil is
arable and fertile; but the district, in general, is
bleak and uninteresting, though considerable im-
provements have been effected. The parish is wa-
tered by three rivulets forming Daven-loch [which
see] and tributary to the Dee. There are several
large cairns and Druidical circles. This parish is in
the presbytery of Kincardine-O'Neil, and synod of
Aberdeen. Patrons, the Crown and Farquharson
of Invercauld. Stipend £217 9s. 3d.; glebe £16.
Unappropriated teinds £91 lis. 7d. — Schoolmaster's
salary £26 ; fees, &c. £24, besides a share of the
Dick bequest.
LOG1E-DURNO. See Chapel-of-Garioch.
LOGIE-EASTER, a parish in the counties of
Ross and Cromarty; bounded on the north by Tain;
on the north-east by Fearn ; on the east by Nigg ;
on the south by Kilmuir; and on the west by Kil-
muir and Edderton. Its length is 7 miles ; and its
breadth about 3 miles. The surface is uneven, but
by no means rugged. The soil is, in some places, a
strong deep clay ; in others a rich black mould ; in
others a light earth on a sandy irretentive subsoil.
Sands have been extensively reclaimed, and are in a
very improved state of cultivation. Wheat is more
plentifully produced than any other grain, and is ex-
cellent in quality. The prevailing rock is the old
red sandstone. Thriving plantations are somewhat
extensive ; and some natural wood flourishes on the
ground of Ulladale. The largest stream bisects the par-
ish eastward, and popularly bears the comprehensive
name of Abhor, or ' river.' Of three other rivulets
or burns, one, after heavy rains, overflows its banks,
and sometimes considerably damages the adjacent
fields, washing away the soil^and spoiling the grass.
The water of one of several very fine springs was once
superstitiously thought to have a predictive power;
and, when carried, in any quantity, into the presence
of a sick person, was alleged to change colour if he
would die, and to retain its limpidness if he would
recover. The climate seems to possess less than
average salubriousness. The mansions are Culrossie
and Shandwick, the seats respectively of Rose Ross,
and Charles C. Ross, Esq. The estate of Balna-
gown in the parish gives designation to its proprie-
tor Sir Charles Ross, Bart. Several cairns stand
on both sides of one of the burns, and are tradition-
ally said to indicate an ancient battle in which some
Scottish forces worsted an army of Danes. A gal-
lows hill in the centre of the parish, and a deep
small pond in its vicinity, called Poll a bhaidh, or
' the Pool for drowning,' were noted, in the days of
hereditary jurisdiction, as places of capital punish-
ment. " About 40 years ago," writes the Old Sta-
tistical reporter, " died a man who witnessed the
last execution in the pool, that of a woman for child
murder." An annual cattle-market is held in May
at Blackhill. The manse and church, situated near
the middle of the parish, are 2 miles north of Park-
hill post-office, and 5 south-south-west of the burgh
of Tain. The Great north mail-road runs along the
east, and a turnpike goes into the interior; but no
road lays open the district in the west. Depopula-
tion has occurred by the enlarging of farms. Popu-
lation, in 1801, 1,031 ; in 1831, 934. Houses 226.
Assessed property, in 1815, £5,247 Logie-Easter
is in the presbytery of Tain, and synod of Ross.
Patron, M'Kenzie of Cromarty. Stipend £236 19s.
Id.; glebe not known. Unappropriated teinds £55
17s. lOd. The church is a neat and commodious
structure; and commands from the summit of a ris-
ing ground a charming view, southward, of the bay
and town, and environs of Cromarty, and eastward
of the parishes of Nigg, Fearn, and Tarbat, and the
coast of the German ocean. In 1834, the parish
school was attended by 106 scholars, and another
school by 58. Parish schoolmaster's salary £30,
with £6 fees.
LOGIE-PERT, a parish in the extreme north of
the maritime district of Forfarshire; bounded on the
north and north-east by the North Esk, which divides
it from Kincardineshire; on the south-east by Mon-
trose; on the south by Montrose and Dun; on the
south-west by Dun and Strickathrow; and on the
west by Strickathrow. Its outline is ellipsoidal, but
with a tapering toward the east; and its extent is
nearly 5 miles from east to west by 3 from north to
south. The surface rises from the North Esk, at
first gently, and afterwards more rapidly, so as to
attain a commanding though not strictly a hilly ele-
vation ; and, in a minor section, it slopes to the
south. The high ground commands a noble view of
the Grampians, of the intervening plain, and of a
considerable part of Kincardineshire. The soil, in
the northern division, is a deep clay which sponta-
neously yields rich crops of grass, and yields large
returns to cultivation ; and in the other districts, it
is partly a light loam, and partly blackish moorland,
superincumbent on clay. About 300 acres are waste;
and all the rest of the area is disposed in arable
grounds and plantations, in the proportions to each
other of 3£ to 1. Abundance of wood, wealth of
soil, and the achievements of husbandry, impress on
the parish a peculiarly snug and cheerful aspect. Of
various springs of excellent water which refresh the
inhabitants, a copious one near the site of the old
manse of Pert is reputed to be antiscorbutic, and one
in Martin's den produces so plentifully that its stream
would till a pipe of a foot in interior circumference.
The North Esk, while skirting the boundary, is beau-
tiful in its banks, and produces excellent trout and sal-
mon. Freestone, of good quality, abounds ; but is not
much worked. Limestone was formerly mined and
burnt to a great extent ; but eventually proved uncom-
pensating. On the North Esk are two seats of consid-
erable manufacture. The Logie works, a mile from
the eastern extremity, and 4£ miles from the town
of Montrose, consist of a flax-spinning mill, which
employs about 130 persons, and a bleachfield for
linen-yarns, which employs nearly 50. These works
belong to a company in Montrose. The Craigo
works, nearly a mile farther up the river, belong to
a company in London, and consist of a flax-spinning
mill, machinery for finishing cloth, a bleachfield, and
a soda work, which jointly employ about 150 per-
sons. Though the population of the eastern section
of the parish is chiefly gathered round the vicinity
of the manufactories, they are nowhere congregated
into a village. The chief mansions are Craigo, in
the south-east corner, and Gallary, on the North
Esk, the seats respectively of David Carnegie, Esq.,
and James Lyall, Esq., the two largest landowners.
Nearly a mile west of Craigo-house are three remark-
able tumuli, called the Laws of Logie, two of which