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——OVERTOWNmiles ENE of Dumbarton. Its owner, John Campbell Jlerse away to the German Ocean. The southern"White, Esq. (b. 1843 ; sue. 1884), holds 910 acres in district, to the extent of one-third of all the area, isthe shire, valued at £1032 per annum. Ord. Sur., nearly filled with masses of the Cheviots, dome-likesh. 30, 1866.hills, smooth and green ; the northern is much diversifiedOvertown, a large village in Cambusnethan parish, in surface, including offshoots of the Cheviots, andLanarkshire, near a station of its own name on the abounding in ravines, picturesque defiles, and romanticCaledonian railway, IJ mile SE of Wishaw, and 3J dells ; and the banks of Oxnam Water are beautifullymiles NW of Carluke. Lying amid a rich mineral undulated, and rise into various slopes of the adjoiningcountry, and inhabited chiefly by workers in the mineral heights. Limestone is found near the Jed, but cannotfield, it has a post office under AVishaw, a school of well be worked ; and sandstone, hard, white, andthe Coltness Iron Co., a Eoman Catholic school, St thought to belong to the Carboniferous formation,Patrick's Roman Catholic church (1873 ; 200 sittings), abounds in the S, intersected by a thick dyke of trap.and an Established church. The last,',built in 1874-75 Transition rocks prevail throughout the N. The soil ofat a cost of over £2000, is an Early English edifice, with the arable lands is loamy, clayey, or gravelly. Lessa bold square tower 80 feet high, and 600 sittings. than one-sixth of the entire area is in tillage ;plantationscover some 600 acres ; and the rest of the land isPop. (1861) 364, (1871) 1517, (1881) 1293.— Ord. Sur.,sh. 23, 1865.pastoral or waste. The Cheviot breed of sheep is inOxenfoord Castle, a seat of the Earl of Stair, in Cranstonparish, Edinburghshire, near the left bank of the high excellence. A weak chalybeate spring near Fair-great favour, and has been brought to a condition ofriver Tyne, IJ mile N of Ford, and 4 miles ESE of Dalkeith.Kemodelled towards the close of last century by went eventually into neglect. The Roman AVatlingloans enjoyed once some medicinal repute, butRobert Adam, and subsequently much enlarged by Street from Yorkshire to the Lothians, running 7^William Burn, it is a magnificent edifice, with extensive miles along the eastern and north-eastern boundary,and beautiful grounds. It contains a fine library, and remains throughout much of its length in good preservation; is still used as a drove road ; and once was aportraits and paintings by Jameson, Angelica Kauffmann,Thomson of Duddingston, etc. The estate, called favourite camping-ground of Border Gypsies. Otherformerly Oxfurd, from 1661 till 1706 gave the title of antiquities are a fairly entire Caledonian stone circle,Viscount Oxfurd, in the peerage of Scotland, to the remains of another stone circle, several circular camps,family of Macgill, whose heiress, Elizabeth, in 1760 vestiges of Dolphiston and two other mediaeval fortalices,and remains of a pre-Pieformation chapel. Themarried her cousin, Sir John Dalrymple, Bart, of Cousland,a great-great-grandson of the first Viscount Stair. Rev. Thomas Boston, one of the founders of the ReliefTheir son. Sir John, in 1853 succeeded as eighth Earl Church, was minister for some time prior to 1757.of Stair.— Ore?. S^cr., sh. 33, 1863. See Lochinch, and Four proprietors hold each an annual value of more, andJohn Small's Castles and Maiisio'ns of tlie Lothians three of less, than £500. Giving off a portion to(Edinb. 1883).Edgerston quoad saera parish, Oxnam is in the presbyteryof Jedburgh and the .synod of Merse and Teviot-Oxenham. See Oxnam.Oxfurd. See Oxenfoord Castle.dale ;the living is worth £350. The parish church,Oxna, an island in Tingwall parish, Shetland, 3i miles built in 1738, and enlarged and restored in 1880, contains280 sittings. A specimen of the old jougs is fixedSW of Scalloway. It has an utmost length of 6J and5j furlongs, and rises at Muckle Ward to 115 feet above outside the S wall. Oxnam public and Towford Dukesea-level. Pop. (1871) 29, (1881) 30.of Roxburghe's school, with respective accommodationOxnam (anc. Oxenham), a hamlet and a parish of for 110 and 56 children, had (1883) an average attendanceof 69 and 32, and grants of £66, 4s. 6d. andSE Roxburghshire. The hamlet lies upon OxnamWater, 4J miles SE of Jedburgh, under which it has a £40, 8s. Valuation (1864) £10,526, Os. 8d., (18S4)post office.£11,750, 19s. Pop. (1801) 688, (1831) 676, (1861)The parish is bounded NE by the main body of 627, (1871) 695, (1881) 683, of whom 638 were in theJedburgh, E by Hounara, SE and S by Northumberland, ecclesiastical parish. Ord. Sur., sh. 17, 1864.and SW by the Edgerston or detached section of Jed-Ox Rocks. See Aires.burgh and by Southdean. Its utmost length, fromKNW to SSE, is 10| miles ; its utmost breadth is 5imiles ; and its area is 33 square miles or 21,193 acres,of which 33J are water. Oxnam Water, rising at analtitude cf 695 feet, runs 5J miles north-by-westwardthrough the interior, then 6J furlongs along the Jedburghboundary ; and, after quitting this parish, itwinds 3| miles north-by-westward through or along theborders of Jedburgh and Ceailing, till, after a totalcourse of 9| miles and a total descent of 455 feet, itfalls into the Teviot at a point i mile NNE of Crailingvillage. From J mile below its source. Kale Water(here Long Burn) runs 5J miles north-north-eastward,mainly across the south-eastern interior, but partlyalong the Edgerston and Hounam boundaries. TheCoquet, a stream belonging almost wholly to England,flows along the Northumberland border for the first jmile of its course ; a tributary of Jed Water traces 3miles of the south-western border ; and the Jed itself,after receiving that tributary, runs 2§miles north -northwestwardalong the same boundary. The surface ishilly, sinking in the extreme N to 340 feet above sealevel,and rising southward thence to the roundedpastoral Cheviots. Chief elevations, from N to S, areBloodylaws Hill (809 feet), Cunzierton (1100), Birkenside(763), Peg Law (932), Lawsuit Law (825), DodHill (977), Plenderleith (1198), Hindhope Hill (1349),Brownhart Law (1664), Grindstone Law (1535), andHungry Law (1643), of which the three last rise on orclose to the Englisli Border. Several oi these heightscommand a magnificent view of Teviotdale and the146CYNEOxton or Agston, a post-office village in Channelkirkparish, Berwickshire, near the right bank of LeaderWater, 5 miles NNW of Lauder.Oykell. See Oikell.Oyne, a parish in Garioch district, centi-al Aberdeenshire,with a post office under Insch and a station on theGreat North of Scotland railway,4 miles W by N ofInveramsay Junction and 24J NW of Aberdeen. It isbounded N by Culsalmond, NE by Rayne, E by Chapelof Garioch, S by Monymusk, W by Eeig and Premnay,and NW by Insch. Its utmost length, from N to S, is6J miles ;its breadth varies between 1^ and 3^ miles;and its area is 10,151i'3^ acres, of which lOf are water.The Don flows 2j miles east-south-eastward along thesouthern, the Uey 3 miles south-eastward along thenorth-eastern, boundary ; and to the Ury run the Burnof Shevock along the Culsalmond border, and GadieBurn across the interior. The surface sinks along theDon to 300, along the Ury to 283, feet ; and thence itrises to 415 feet at the parish church, 558 at Ardoyne,1698 at the Mither Tap of Bennochib, and 1340 atMillstone Hill. Bennochie, parting the Gadie's valleyfrom the Don's, and occupying close upon half of theentire area, forms a stupendous barrier between thenorthern and the southern district, the former of whichhas the richest soil, and contains four-fifths of the population.Granite is the predominant rock, and has beenquarried ; trap of hard texture and a deep blue hue isused for dykes and ordinary masonry ; and rock crystal,topaz, jasper, and shorl are found. The soil of the lowgrounds is mostly friable and fertile ; on the slopes of