. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . cripple for life. See The Culloden Papers, 1625-1748 (1815); HillBurtons Life of Duncan Forhcs (1848), and vol. viii., , of his History of Scotland (ed. 1876); RobertChamberss History of the Ilebcllion (1847); and Ewalds Life fi,nd Times of Prince CharlesStuart {2 vols., 1876). Cullow, a farm in the parish and near the hamlet of CULLY Cortacliy, NW Forfarshire, 5 miles N of sheep fair is held here on the last Friday of April. Cully. See Cally. CuUy
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . cripple for life. See The Culloden Papers, 1625-1748 (1815); HillBurtons Life of Duncan Forhcs (1848), and vol. viii., , of his History of Scotland (ed. 1876); RobertChamberss History of the Ilebcllion (1847); and Ewalds Life fi,nd Times of Prince CharlesStuart {2 vols., 1876). Cullow, a farm in the parish and near the hamlet of CULLY Cortacliy, NW Forfarshire, 5 miles N of sheep fair is held here on the last Friday of April. Cully. See Cally. CuUykhan, a romantic ravine in the E of Gamrie parisn,Banffshire, traversed by a brook, and descending to thesea, near Troup House. Culmallie. See Golspie. Culquhanny. See Colquhont. Culrain, a station in Kincardine parish, N Eoss-shire,on the Highland raUway, 3 miles NW of Ardgay, underwhich it has a post and telegraph office. Near it isCulrain Lodge. Culross (Gael, back or neck of the peninsula ), asmall town and a parish in the detached district of Perth-shire. A royal and parliamentary burgh, the town. Seal of Culross. stands on the Firth of Forth, 2^ miles SSE of EastGrange station, this being 6 miles W by N of Dunferm-line, and 7| ESE of Alloa. It occupies the face of abrae, amid gardens and fruit-trees, and, as seen fromthe Fiith, has a pleasing and picturesque aspect; but,once a place of importance, it has fallen into gi-eat had a Cistercian abbey which possessed much wealth,and worked large neighbouring coal mines; it conductedso great a trade in salt and coal that sometimes as manyas 170 foreign vessels lay off it simultaneously in theFirth, to receive the produce of its salt-pans and itsmines ; it carried on a great manufacture of the roundiron baking-plates called girdles, which, as noticed inScotts Heart of Midlothian, rendered its hammermenpre-eminently famous; and it acquired, towards the closeof the 18th century, extensive works for the extractionof tar, na
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