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—;;LIDDEL WATERfounded the College Library of Edinburgh ; Sir Symonde Preston of Craigmillar, in whose Edinburgh house,as provost, Queen Mary was lodged on the night afterthe affair of Carberry Hill ; Sir John Gilmour of Craigmillar,who was Lord President of the Court of Sessionabout the period of the Restoration ; Gilbert Wauchopeand Sir John Wauchope of Niddry, the former a memberof the celebrated Eeformation Parliament of 1560, andthe latter a distinguished Covenanter and a member ofthe General Assembly of 1648 ; and Sir James Stewart ofGoodtrees, who from 1692 till 1713 filled the office ofLord Advocate of Scotland. Among the ministers havebeen John Davidson (1584), of prophetic powers ; JohnAdamson (1616) and Andrew Cant (1659-73), both principalsof Edinburgh University ; and the late James Begg,D.D. (1835-43), of Free Church fame. The Wauchopesof Niddry have had a seat in the parish for 500 years,and are probably the oldest family in Midlothian. Ord.Sur., sh. 32, 1857. See an article in vol. i. of Trans.Soc. Ants. Scotl. (1793).Liddel Water, a Border stream of Roxburgh andDumfries -hires, formed by the confluent Caddroun,Wormscleuch, and Peel Burns, at an altitude of 650feet above sea-level, amid the great bog called DeadWater, IJ mile ENE of Saughtree station. Thence itflows 15J miles south-south-westward through Castletonparish, next llj miles along the English Border, havingCastleton and Canonbie parishes on its right bank andCumberland on its left ; till, after a descent of 545 feet,it falls into the Esk at a point 12 miles N of Carlisle and7f S by E of Langholm. It is fed by a score of afHuents,the chief of them Hermitage Water and KeeshopeBum. For 10 miles from its source its banks are bleakand naked—in most places a mountain gorge or glenbut afterwards they spread out in a beautiful thoughnarrow valley, carpeted with fine verdure, adorned withbeautiful plantations, and screened by picturesqueheights. In all the lower part of its course, its banksare sylvan, picturesque, and at intervals romantic ; and,at a cataract called Penton Linns, 3 miles from theconfluence with the Esk, they are wildly yet beautifullygrand. Stupendous rocky precipices, wliich fall sheerdown to the bed of the stream, and wall up the waterwithin a narrow broken channel, along the Scottish sidehave a terrace-walk carried along a ledge, and affordinga view of the vexed and foaming stream, lashed intofoam among the obstructing rocks ; and they are fringedwith a rich variety of exuberant copsewood. In themiddle of the cataract rises from the river's bed asolitary large rock crowned with shrubs, Avhose brokenand wooded summit figures majestically in a conflictwith the roaring waters during a high flood. At itsconfluence with the Esk a sort of promontory is formed,on which stand the ruins of a fort, called in the districtthe Strength of Liddel. Its salmon and trout fishingis good, but like the Esic it has been affected by thesalmon disease.— OrrZ. Sur., shs. 17, 11, 1864-63.Liddesdale. See Castleto>% Canonbie, HermitageCastle ; and Robert Bruce Armstrong's History of Liddesdale,etc. (Edinb. 1884).LifF, a village and a parish of SW Forfarshire. Standingclose to the Perthshire boundary, 250 feet abovesea-level, and 5 miles WNW of the centre of Dundee,the village is a pleasant little place, with a station onthe Newtyle branch of the Caledonian railway, 4J milesfrom Dundee AVest station.The parish contains also the Loohee and Logiesuburbs of Dundee, the villages of Benvie, Inver-GOWRIE, DaRGIE, MuIRHEAD OP LlEF, BiRKHILL FeUS,and Backmuir, and part of the village of MilnefieldFeus ;and, comprehending the four ancient parishes ofLiff', Logie, Invergowrie, and Benvie, is commonlydesignated Liff and Benvie. The original parish of Liffcomprehended most of the site of Lochee ; the parish ofLogie comprised a portion of Dundee burgh, and wasimited to Liff before the middle of the 17th century;the parish of Invergowrie was annexed as early as Logie,or earlier ; and the parish of Benvie was annexed in1758. The united parish is bounded N by Auchter-510LILLIESLEAFhouse, NE by Mains and Strathmartin, E by Dundee,S by the Firth of Tay, and W by Longforgan andFowlis-Easter. Its utmost length, from E to W, is 4|miles ; its utmost breadth, from N to S, is 3| milesand its area is 8053^ acres, of which 4 (at Invergowrie)belong to Perthshire, whilst 956J are foreshore, 14Jmud, and 8f water. Dighty Water and a small tributaryof that stream trace the northern boundary ;and Invergowrie Burn, coming in from the NW, andreceiving affluents in its course, drains most of theinterior to the Firth of Tay. 'The land rises gentlyfrom the firth for 3 miles, till near Birkhill Feus itattains an elevation of 500 feet above sea-level, andthen declines northward to Dighty Water. Sandstone,of the Devonian formation, and of various colour andquality, is the prevailing rock, and has been largelyquarried. The soil of the lower grounds is either clayeyor a black mould inclining to loam ; of the highergrounds, is light and sandy. Some of the land is ofvery fine quality, and rents at from £4 to £6, this highvalue being due to the proximity of Dundee. A largeaggregate area, in the K chiefly, is under wood ; some60 acres are in pasture ; and all the rest of the parish,not occupied by houses, railways, and roads, is intillage. Factories and other industrial establishmentsmake a great figure, but are mostly situated at or nearLochee. In an enclosure opposite the churchyard ofLiff may be traced the site of a castle, said to have beenbuilt by Alexander I. of Scotland, and called Hurly-Hawkin. In the neighbourhood of Camperdown Housewas discovered, towards the close of last century, asubterranean building of several apartments, rude instructure, and uncemented by mortar. Close on theboundary with Dundee is a place called Pitalpie, or Pitof Alpin, from having been the scene of that memorableengagement in the 9th century between the Scots andthe Picts, when the former lost at once battle, king,and many nobles. Mansions, noticed separately, areCamperdown, Gray House, Balruddery, and Invergowrie; and 18 proprietors holds each an annualvalue of £500 and upwards, 117 of between £100 and£500, 137 of from £50 to £100, and 265 of from £20 to£50. Giving off portions to five quoad sacra parishes,this parish is in the presbytery of Dundee and synod ofAngus and Mearns ; the augmented stipend and communionelements together have a value of £457, 13s.The parish church, at Liff village, is a good EarlyEnglish edifice, erected in 1831 at a cost of £2200, with750 sittings, and a conspicuous spire 108 feet high.There is a Free church of Liff ; and two public schools,Liff and Muirhead of Liff, with respective accommodationfor 114 and 205 children, had (1882) an averageattendance of 93 and 77, and grants of £74, 10s. and£60, 15s. Landward valuation (1857) £11,514, (1884)£15,215, lis., ^fes £2099 for railways. Pop. of entireparish (1801) 2194, (1831) 4247, (1861) 24,108, (1871)35,554, (1881) 43,190, of whom 14 belonged to thePerthshire section, whilst ecclesiastically 12,758 werein Liff and Benvie, 13,029 in St David's, 4270 in Logie,3716 in St Luke's, 6641 in St Mark's, and 2762 inLochee.— Ore?. Sur., sh. 48, 1868.Lightbum, a village in Cambuslang parish, Lanarkshire,1 mile ESE of Cambuslang town. Pop. (1881)464.Lilliards-Edge. See Ancrum.Lilliesleaf is a village and parish in the NW of Roxburghshire.The village, 3 miles W of Belses station,3J NNW of Hassendean station, and 6 SSW of NewtownSt Boswells station—all on the AVaverley route of theNorth British railway system—is picturesquely situatedon a ridge of ground which slopes down first steeply tothe village, then gradually to Ale Water. Betweenthe village and the river lie fields and meadows. Lilliesleafconsists mainly of one long narrow street, J milein length, which contains the post oSice, with moneyorder, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, 2inns, the Currie school for girls, and several goodshops. There is a subscription library, containing 1600volumes of all classes of literature. 'The houses exhibit