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—Lo'cHMADDYTower and Halleath ;annual value of £500 and upwards, 11 of between £100and £500, U of from £50 to £100, and 49 of from £20to £50. Lochmabeu is the seat of a presbytery in thesynod of Dumfries ;the living is worth £384. A Freechurch at Hightae, built for a Relief congregation in1796, and afterwards Reformed Presbyterian, was restoredin 1883. Three public schools—Hightae, Lochmaben,and Templand—with respective accommodation for 152,425, and 94 children, had (1882) an average attendanceof 72, 283, and 75, and grants of £51, 15s., £247, 12s.,and £63, 3s. Valuation (1860) £10,502, (1884) £13,997,6s. 4d. Pop. (1801) 2053, (1831) 2795, (1861) 3087,(1871) 3085, (1881) 2816.— OrcZ. Sur., sh. 10, 1864.The presbytery of Lochmaben comprises the parishesof Applegarth, Dalton, Dryfesdale, Button, Johnstone,Kirkmichael, Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Lochmaben, Moffat,Mouswald, St Mungo, Tundergarth, and Wamphray.Pop. (1871) 16,177, (1881) 16,126, of whom 3876 werecommunicants of the Church of Scotland in 1878. TheFree Church presbytery, comprising the parishes aroundLochmaben, takes designation from Lockerbie.See AVilliam Graham, Lochmaben Five Hundred YearsAgo (Edinb. 1865) ; and M. E. Gumming Bruce, FamilyHecords of the Bruces and the Cumyns (Edinb. 1870).Lochmaddy, a village and a sea-loch in North Uistisland. Outer Hebrides, luverness-sliire. The village,on the W shore of the sea-loch, 19^ miles W of VaternishPoint in Skye and 65 SW by S of Stornoway, communicatesregularly with Skye and the Scottish mainlandby steamers, and is a centre of trade and commerce542LOCHNAW CASTLEIslands. From time immemorial they have been called for the middle and southern portions of the Outer'the King's kindly tenants, ' and occasionally the Hebrides. It comprises some poor huts, an inn, a'rentallers' of the Crown. The lands originally belongedsheriff's residence, and a court-house and prison, at con-to the kings of Scotland, or formed part of their siderable distances one from another ; and has a postproper patrimony, and were granted, as is generally office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraphbelieved, by Bruce, the Lord of Annandale, on his departments, a branch of the Caledonian Bank, and ainheriting the throne, to his domestic servants or to considerably frequented harbour. The sea-loch, openingthe garrison of the castle. The rentaliers were bound on the E from the Little Minch, and expanding fromto provision the royal fortress, and probably to carry an entrance only IJ mile wide to an interior widtharms in its defence. They have no charter or seisin, of 2| miles, penetrates the land to a length of a\ miles,but hold their title by mere possession, yet can alienatetheir property by a deed of conveyance, and by procuringfor the purchaser enrolment in the rental-book of theand includes, not one harbour, but many harbours, safe,capacious, and wanting nothing but sufBcient trade torender them one of the finest groups of natural harboursEarl of Mansfield. The new possessor pays a small fee, in the world. About \ mile inward from the sea aretakes up his succession without service, and in his turn two remarkable isolated rocks of columnar basalt, 100is proprietor simply by actual possession. The tenants feet high, called Maddy-More and Maddy-Grisioch,were, in former times, so annoyed by the constables of which serve as marks to mariners. The country aroundthe castle that they twice made appeals to the Crown, is all low, flat, and peaty country ; and Loch Maddy itselfand on both occasions—in the reigns respectively of is so beset with innumerable islets and intersected byJames VI, and Charles II.—they obtained orders, under multitudes of little peninsulas, as to present a perfectthe royal sign-manual, to be allowed undisturbed and labyrinth of land and water. It does not cover morefull possession of their singular rights. In more recent than 9 square miles with its waters, but its aggregatetimes, at three several dates, these rights were formally coast-line can hardly be less than 200 miles.recognised bythe Scottish Courtof Session and theBritish Loch Maddy or Loch na Meide. See Mudale.House of Peers. A chief part of the lands existed till Lochmalonie, an estate, with a mansion, in Kilmanythe latter half of last century in the form of a common ty, parish, Fife, 4^ miles N by W of Cupar.but it was then, by mutual agreement, divided ;and Lochnagar, a finely-shaped mountain of Braemar district,SW Aberdeenshire, 6§ miles SE of Castletown andbeing provided, in its several parcels, with neat substantialfarm-houses, and brought fully into cultivation,it soon became more valuable than the original walk. One of the frontier Grampians, it flanks the W9| SW of Ballater as the crow flies, but lOi and 13 toallotments immediately adjacent to the villages. More side of the upper part of Glenmuick, and blocks thethan a moiety of the lands, however, has been purchased heads of Glengelder and Glengarrawalt ; and it rises sopiecemeal by the proprietor of Rammerscales, whose steeply and fitfully as to be scaleable on foot only withmansion-house is in the vicinity, within the limits of extreme fatigue, yet can be conveniently ascended onDalton parish. But such portions as remain unalienated Highland ponies, as by the Queen and Prince Albertexhibit, in the persons of their owners, a specimen of on 16 Sept. 1848. Far up its north-eastern side liesrustic and Lilliputian aristocracy unparalleled in the triangular Lochnagar or the Lake ' of the Hare' (2J x 2kingdom. If the possession of landed property in a furl. ; 2575 feet), a gloomy tarn, overhung by precipicesregular line of ancestry for several generations is what 1200 feet high ; and it is gashed on other sides and onconfers the dignity of gentleman, that title may be its shoulders by frightful corries. Some of its higherjustly claimed by a community whose fathers have hollows retain deep snow-drifts throughout the summerowned and occupied their ridges and acres from the months ; and the whole of it was white with snow all13th century. Their names run so in clusters that day on 4 June 1880. The predominant rock is granite,soubriquets are very generally in use. Richardson is and topazes, beryls, and rock crystals are found. Risingcommonest, then Eae, Kennedy, Nicholson, and Wright. to an altitude of 3786 feet above sea-level, LochnagarThese names were borne by companions of Wallace and commands, from its summit a very extensive and mostBruce in their struggles against the usurping Edward. magnificent view. Lord Byron pronounced it ' the mostMansions, noticed separately, are Elshieshields sublime and picturesque of the Caledonian Alps,' andand 8 proprietors hold each an celebrated it, as ' dark Lochnagar, ' in one of his bestknown and most beautiful minor poems. Ord. Sur.,sh. 65, 1870.Loch-na-Eeal, a sea-loch penetrating the W side ofMull island, Argyllshire. Opening a little E of Staffaisland, and extending eastward to the length of 14^miles, it measures 12j miles across the entrance, anddiminishes gradually to a width of onlj' 1 mile ; containsGometra, Ulva, Little Colonsay, Eorsa, and Inchkennethislands ; is divided by Gometra and Ulva intotwo sections, slenderly connected with each other ; and,in the part to the N of Gometi'a and Ulva, bears theseparate name of Loch Tuadh.Loch nan Cuinne. See Kildonan.Looh-na-Sheallag. See Lochbroom.Lochnaw Castle, a mansion in Leswalt parish, Wigtownshire,on the southern shore of the AVhite Loch,6f miles WNW of Stranraer. Its oldest part, a centralsquare battlemented tower, five stories high, bears date1426 ; the modern portion, well harmonising with theold, was commenced in 1820. The garden and groundsare of great beauty, finely wooded with trees bothnative and exotic. The White Loch (3 x 2J furlongs)was drained in the early part of last century, but ahundred years after was restored to its original condition.It contains abundance of capital trout ; and onits wooded islet are traces of the ancient King's Castleof Lochuaw. From 1330 to 1747 the Agnews of Lochnawwere hereditary sheriffs of Galloway ; and the presentrepresentative, Sir Andrew Agnew, eighth Bart,since 1629 (b. 1818 ; sue. 1849), Liberal M.P. for Wig-