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 . s village,situated on the banks of the Devon, has sprung upwithin these few years. Coal, which is abundant in theparish, is wrought in its vicinity ; and brick and tileworks have been erected. The place is suitably circum-stanced for manufactures, the Devon supplying waterfor steam-engines and other purposes. DE
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 . s village,situated on the banks of the Devon, has sprung upwithin these few years. Coal, which is abundant in theparish, is wrought in its vicinity ; and brick and tileworks have been erected. The place is suitably circum-stanced for manufactures, the Devon supplying waterfor steam-engines and other purposes. DEWARTOWN, a village, in the parish of Borth-wicK, county of Edinburgh, 1 mile (S.) from Ford;containing 193 inhabitants. It is one of the most con-siderable villages in the parish, is of pleasing appearance,and consists principally of sm^ll holdings on the estateof Vogrie, the property of the Dewar family. The dwell-ings are ranged on one side of the road, and in front isa plantation, with a small stream flowing near : the sce-nery in the neighbourhood is very picturesque. DINGWALL, a royalburgh, a sea-port, and a pa-rish, the capital of the countyof Ross, 20 miles (S. W.) f/isoi^^ iHr^^^ *?*1 — from Cromarty,and 1/4milesfH^ifOr ^VLVi-T^^^!^! -:?i\ /.- j,r y^y) f^om Edinburgh;. 1(^- JH containing 2100 inhabitants,S of whom 1739 are in the Burgh Seal. burgh. This place, the nameof which is of Scandinavianorigin, is supposed to havebeen originally a Danish set-tlement, and subsequentlythe seat of one of the numerous royal fortresses erectedalong the coast, to repel the frequent incursions of thatwarlike people. It is of considerable antiquity, and,from the discovery of foundations of houses and pave-ments within and beyond the limits of the present town,is supposed to have been anciently of greater extent andimportance. It was erected into a royal burgh by Alex-ander II., who, in 1226, bestowed upon the inhabitantsa charter investing them with all the privileges and im-munities
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