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——NEW MAUDLanarkshire, on the cross-railway from Morningside toHolytown, adjacent to the Coltness Ironworks, 2 milesENE of Wishaw, and 6 by railway SE of Holytown.Standing amid a rich mineral tract, and inhabitedchiedy by miners and ironworkers, it has a post office,with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments,a railway station, the Coltness memorial quoadsacra church (1878), St Bridget's Koman Catholicchurch (1871 ;300 sittings), a Eoman Catholic school,and an elegant edifice, erected by the Coltness IronworksCompany at a cost of £3000, to serve as both aschool and a chapel of ease. The school affords regularinstruction, under a full staff of teachers, to over 600children, and is maintained by the Ironworks Company.Pop., jointly with Coltness Ironworks, (1861) 2020,(1871) 2545, (1881) 2682, of whom 1445 were males.Houses (1881) 478 occupied, 35 vacant. —Ord Sur.,sh. 23, 1865.New Maud. See Maud.Newmill. See Keith.Newmilns, a town in Loudoun parish, Ayrshire.Lying, 250 feet above sea-level, on the right bank ofthe river Irvine, which divides it from Greenholmsuburb in Galston parish, it has beautiful environs('Loudoun's bonny woods and braes'), serves as a seatof retail trade for a considerable extent of surroundingcountry, and presents a tolerably well-built, pleasantappearance. Its station, the terminus of a branch ofthe Glasgow and South-Western railway, is 2 miles E byN of Galston and 74 E by S of Kilmarnock. In themiddle of the town is an old tower, whose early historyis unknown, but which about 1681 was Captain Inglis'headquarters and the prison of seven Covenanters,captured near Kilmarnock, and presently set free by thedaring of friends outside. Newmilns has a post officeunder Kilmarnock, with money order, savings' bank,and telegraph departments, branches of the Clydesdaleand Royal Banks, 8 insurance agencies, 4 hotels, 2 gascompanies, a police station, a town-hall, a temperancehall, a working-men's institute, and a fair on theThursday in July of Glasgow fair week. Places ofworship are Loudoun parish church (1845 ; 1200 sittings),a Free church, and a U.P. church (1833 ; 780 sittings);and the schools are two, public and Lady Flora's. Thestaple industry is muslin weaving. Newmilns wasmade a burgh of barony by a royal charter of 1490, andis governed by 3 bailies, a treasurer, a fiscal, and 9councillors. Pop. (1841) 1988, (1861) 2810, (1871)3028, (1881) 2860, of whom 1515 were females, and 741were in Greenholm. Orel. Sur., sh. 22, 1865.New Monkland. See Monkland, New.Newmore, an estate, with a mansion, in Eosskeenparish, Ross-shire, 3J miles NNW of Invergorden. Itsowner, George Inglis, Esq. (b. 1843), holds 2918 acresin the shire, valued at £1778 per annum. Ord. Sur.,sh. 94, 1878.Newpaxk, a station in West Calder parish, Edinburghshire,on the Cleland section of the Caledonian railway,2 miles SW of West Calder village.Newport, a small seaport town in Forgan parish,Fife, on the Firth of Tay, 11 miles NNE of Cupar byroad, and li mile SSE of Dundee by water, with astation on the Tayport and Newport section of theNorth British railway, 2J miles W by S of Tayport,and 2| NE of the southern end of the new Tay Bridge.Consisting of two parts, Easter and Wester Newport,it was constituted, in 1822, by act of parliament, theferry-station from Fife to Dundee ; and presents apleasant, well-built appearance, with many elegantvillas and other private residences, arranged in terraceson the slopes descending to the firth. It commandsa brilliant view of Dundee and a great extentof the Tay's basin ; and is a favourite summer resort offamilies from Dundee and other places, having at thesame time become the permanent abode of not a fewprofessional and business men. As a creek of Dundee,it carries on some commerce, in exporting agriculturalproduce, and importing lime and coal ; and has a postoffice under Dundee, with money order, savings' bank,NEWTONand telegraph departments, an hotel, a fine ferry harbour,a gaswork, an Established church, a Free church,a U.P. church, a Congregational church, a public school,a Young Men's Christian Association, and the BlythMemorial Public Hall, erected at a cost of £4000.Formed immediately subsequent to 1822, after designsby Telford, the ferry harbour is a splendid structure,350 feet long and 60 wide. It projects into a depth of5 feet at low water of spring tides ; has on each side acarriage-way;possesses most convenient adaptationsfor the use of double or twin steamboats ; and, from thetime of its completion, has served for punctual communicationwith Dundee many times a day. TheEstablished church was built as a chapel of ease in 1871at a cost of £1350. It contains 450 sittings ; and in1878 was raised to quoad sacra status. The U.P.church, built in 1881 at a cost of over £2000, is acruciform Gothic edifice, with 400 sittings and a spire80 feet high. Pop. of?, s. parish (1881) 1775 ; of town(1841) 260, (1871) 1507, (1881) 2311, of whom 1439were females. Houses (1881) 452 inhabited, 61 vacant,7 building.— Ori^. Sur., sh. 49, 1865.Newseat, a station, near the W border of Peterheadparish, Aberdeenshire, on the Peterhead branch of theBuchan and Formartine railway, 3^ miles W by N ofPeterhead town.Newshot Island, a low and marshy islet (1 x J mile)of Inchinnan parish, Renfrewshire, in the river Clyde,2 miles NNW of Renfrew.New Slains. See Slains, New.Newstead, a village in Melrose parish, Roxburghshire,on the right bank of the Tweed, 1 mile E of Melrosetown, under which it has a post office. It is thoughtby some antiquaries to occupy the site of the Romantown Trimontium, which Skene, however, places onBeuxswaek HiU ; and it probably owes its presentname to the erection, in its vicinity, of an ancientecclesiastical edifice, intermediate in date and characterbetween the Columban monastery of Old Melrose andthe Cistercian Abbey of Melrose. Roman coins, aRoman altar, a stone slab with a boar in relief (thebadge of the Tenth Legion), and other Roman relicshave been found adjacent to it ; some ancient substructions,with marks which might relegate them tothe Roman times, have been discovered in its neighbourhood;and a series of ancient pits, one of themcontaining a Roman spear and some pieces of Romanpottery, was laid open in 1846 at the forming of anadjacent reach of the Waverley section of the NorthBritish railway. A field, called the Red Abbey Stead,was found, not many years ago, to contain hewn blocksof red sandstone ; and is supposed to have been thesite of the ancient ecclesiastical edifice. The viaductof the Berwickshire railway, which crosses the TweedI mile ENE of Newstead, was erected in 1866, and,rising 133 feet above the water-level, is a most imposingstructure.—Pop. of village (1831) 230, (1871) 315,(1881) SOI.— Ord. Sur., sh. 25, 1865.Newton, a parish of NE Edinburghshire, containingthe post-office village of Millerhill, with a station onthe Waverley section of the North British railway, 2SE ofmiles NNW of the post-town, Dalkeith, and 6JEdinburgh. Since the Reformation it has comprehendedthe ancient parishes of Newton (to the SE) andWymet or Woolmet (to the NW). Bounded SW andNW by Liberton, NE by Inveresk, and SE by Dalkeith,it has au utmost length from NW to SE of 2J miles,a varying width of 1| and 2 miles, and an area of 2034acres, of which IJ are water. Bukdiehouse Burn runs2J miles east-north-eastward along or close to all thenorth-western boundary ; the south-eastern is tracedfor IJ mile by Park Burn, next for 3 furlongs by theNorth Esk, and for the last furlong by the united EsK.Between, the surface rises very gently, at no point muchexceeding, and at none sinking much below, 200 feetabove sea-level. In the NW the rocks belong to theCarboniferous Limestone series, but elsewhere they arepart of the true coal-measures ; and coal has beenlargely worked for nigh three centuries. During the111