A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . dedalso the villages of Quarrelton and Thorn, and wasabout three miles in length and one mile in averagebreadth : the church is a neat structure in the later En-glish style of architecture, erected by subscription, andcontaining about 800 sittings. ELDRIG, a village, in the parish of Mochrum,county of Wigtown, 3
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . dedalso the villages of Quarrelton and Thorn, and wasabout three miles in length and one mile in averagebreadth : the church is a neat structure in the later En-glish style of architecture, erected by subscription, andcontaining about 800 sittings. ELDRIG, a village, in the parish of Mochrum,county of Wigtown, 3 miles (N. by W.) from Port-Wiliiam ; containing 217 inhabitants. It is situated inthe south-west part of the parish, and in the vicinity ofa stream which flows from Loch Eldrig into Luce bay. ELGAR, an isle, in the parish of Shapinshay, countyof Orkney. This place, also called Eller-Holm, lies alittle southward of the island of Shapinshay, from whichit is separated by a reef of rocks that are almost dry atlow water. It furnishes pasture for a number of sheepand young cattle in summer, and by its favourable situ-ation gives the utmost security to the fine harbour ofElwick. There are evident marks of its having beenformerly inhabited, though at present no one residesupon it. 413. Burgh Seal. ELGIN, a burgh, mar-ket-town, and parish, in thecounty of Elgin, of which itis the capital, 63^ miles () from Aberdeen, and 174(N.) from Edinburgh; con-taining 5216 inhabitants, of Wwhom 4325 are in the place appears to havederived its name and foun-dation from Elgin, or Hel-gyn, general of the army ofSigurd, the Norwegian Earlof Orkney; who about the year 930 made himselfmaster of Caithness, Sutherland, Ross, and Moray, inthe southern part of which last district he built a town,supposed to be the origin of the present, a few milesfrom the small harbour of Burgh-Head, where the Nor-wegians kept their shipping. A castle seems to havebeen erected at an early period, either for th
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