. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. Jurais the largest. The islands of Colonsay and Oransay,of Scarba, Lunga, Balnahuaigh, and the three smalluninhabited isles called the Gravellach or Mareislands on the north of Jura, form the rest ofthe district. It was originally called the united par-ish of Killearnadale and Kilchattan : Jura formingthe former, and Colonsay the latter. The islands ofGigha and Cara were disjoined from it about theyear 1729. The district of Colonsay and Oransay isundercharge of an assistant-minister : see Colon-say. Population, in 1801,2,0
. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. Jurais the largest. The islands of Colonsay and Oransay,of Scarba, Lunga, Balnahuaigh, and the three smalluninhabited isles called the Gravellach or Mareislands on the north of Jura, form the rest ofthe district. It was originally called the united par-ish of Killearnadale and Kilchattan : Jura formingthe former, and Colonsay the latter. The islands ofGigha and Cara were disjoined from it about theyear 1729. The district of Colonsay and Oransay isundercharge of an assistant-minister : see Colon-say. Population, in 1801,2,007; in 1831, 2, 404. Assessed property, in 1815, £3,598.—This parish is in the presbytery of Islay and Jura,and synod of Argyle. Patron, the Duke of £158 6s. 8d.; glebe £12. Church built about 1776; enlarged about 1824; sittings 249 There are two parochial schools in Jura, the mastersof which share a salary of £33 6s. 8d., with a thirdschoolmaster stationed in Colonsay. Besides thisthere were, in 1834, five private schools in Jura. >. KAI 71 KAT K KAIL. See Kale; KAILZIE, a suppressed parish lying on both sidesof the Tweed in Peebles-shire. Two-thirds of itlying on the south bank are annexed to Traquair,and one-third lying on the north bank, is annexed toInnerleithen. The parish was suppressed in ruins of Kailzie church stand on a streamletwhich is called from it Kirkbum, and which fallsinto the Tweed from the south. KAIM. See Dfjffus. KAIMES-(The). See Greenlaw. KALE, Kail, or Cayle (The), a rivulet inRoxburghshire. It rises on the south side of Fair-wood-fell, a few yards from the boundary with Eng-land, in the south-west extremity of the parish ofOxnam, and, cradled among the most alpine heightsof the Cheviots, continues over most of its course tobe a brawling but beautiful mountain-stream. Itruns first 2 miles north-eastward; and next II milesnorthward, bisecting the parishes of Oxnam, Hou-nam, and Morebattle; and then it flows o m
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