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—;'—';LUTHERMTTIRland Christian Knowledge Society's school, with respectiveaccommodation for 87 and 75 children, had (1882)an average attendance of 47 and 26, and grants of £49,12s. and £34, 13s. Valuation (1860) £4906, (1884)£6591, lis. Pop. (1801) 953, (1831) 1181, (1861) 831,(1871) 730, (1881) 719, of whom 54 were Gaelic-spealving.—Oni.Siir., shs. 38, 30, 1871-76. See Dr WilliamFraser's Chiefs of Colqulioun and their Country (2 vols.,Edinb. 1869) ; and pp. 64-77 of Dorothy Wordsworth'sTour in Scotland (Edinb. 1874).Luthermuir, a village, with a public school, in Marykirkparish, Kincardineshire, near the right bank ofLuther Water, 3| miles S by E of Fettercairn and 5 SWof Laurencekirk, under which it has a post office.Founded towards the close of last century on a moorso barren as to be reckoned worthless, it figured, for atime, as little else than a resort of destitute and abandonedpersons from many surrounding parishes, butforty years ago was mainly occupied by handloomweavers. Pop. (1841) 967, (1861) 868, (1871) 654,(1881) 2S3. —Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 186S.Luther Water, a troutful rivulet of Kincardineshire,rising at au altitude of 1300 feet among the frontierGrampians, and curving 13J miles south-south-eastwardand soutli-soutli-westward through Fordoun, Laurencekirk,and Marykirk parishes, till, after a total descentof 1205 feet, it falls into the North Esk at the boundarywith Forfarshire, If mile WNW of Marykirk village.Ord. Sur., slis. 66, 57, 1871-68.Luthrie, a village on the E side of Creich parish,Fife, 2i miles S of the Firth of Tay, and 5i NW ofCupar, under which it has a post office.Lybster, a coast village of Latheron parish, Caithness,13g miles SW by S of Wick. It has a post officeunder Wick, with money order, savings' bank, andtelegraph departments, branches of the Commercial andthe Aberdeen Town and County Banks, two hotels, apolice station, a good boat harbour, a chapel of ease(1836 ; 805 sittings), a Free church, a public school,and fairs on the Thursday in July after HUl of Wickand the second Tuesday of November. Lybster is theheadquarters of one of the twenty-six fishery districts ofScotland, comprising the fishing villages of Latheronwheel,Forse, Lybster, and Clyth. Within this districtthe number of lioats at the beginning of 18S3 was 260,of fishermen and boys 1272, of fishcurers 22, and ofcoopers 56, whilst the value of boats was £10,635, ofnets £16,776, and of liuos £991. The following was thenumber in different j-ears—of barrels of herrings saltedor cured (1866) 15,806, (1873) 28,350, (1878) 10,417,(1881) 20,764, (1882) 3458 ;of cod, ling, and hake taken(1873) 16,979, (ISSl) 1205, (1882) 6200. Pop. (1861)745, (1S71) 833, (1881) 831.— 0;-d Sur., sh. 110, 1877.Lydoch or Laidon, Loch, a lake on the mutual borderof Fortingall parish, Perthshire, and Glenorchy parish,Argyllshire, 6 miles E of Kingshouse Inn. It lies 924feet above sea-level, amid the dismal expanse of RannochMuir ;extends 5-Jmilesnorth-eastward ; has amaximum breadth of h mile ; is all engirt with bog andheath and rock, presenting a surpassing scene of wildnessand desolation, yet possesses within itself manyattractions ;contains abundance of trout, some of themrunning up to 8 lbs. in weight ; is gemmed with nearlya dozen islets, the haunts of the red deer and the eagleand sends oflF, from a point near its head, the rivuletGauir, 7 miles eastward to the head of Loch Rannoch—Ord. Sur., sh. 54, 1873.Lymekilns. See Limekilns.Lymphoy. See Lennox C.a.stle, Edinburghshire.Lyne and Megget, a united parish of Peeblesshire,consisting of two widely separate portions—Lyne, nearthe centre of the county ;and Megget, 13 miles to theS, on the southern border. Lyne, whose church is 4Jmiles AV of Peebles and IJ mile WNW of Lyne stationin Stobo parish, is hounded NE by Eddleston, E byPeebles, S and SW by Stobo, aud NW by Newlands.Its utmost length, from N to S, is^2J miles ; its utmostbreadth, from E to W, is 2| miles ; and its area is 2793acres. Ltne Water flows 3| mUes south-eastward andLYNEDOCH COTTAGEoastwardalong all the Stobo boundary to apoint 3furlong3above its influx to the Tweed, and here receives fourrivulets, one of them tracing all the eastern border.The surface sinks at the SE corner to 565 feet abovesea-level, thence rising to 701 feet at the Roman camp,1261 at Hamildean liill, 1334 at Black Meldon, and1516 near the NW boundary.Megget, whose chapel of ease is 19J miles WSW ofSelkirk, is bounded N by Manor, NE by Yarrow inSelkirkshire, E for 7 furlongs by St Mary's Loch, SE byEttrick in Selkirkshire, SW by Moffat in Dumfriesshire,W by Tweedsmuir, and NW by Drummelzier. Itsutmost length, from NNE to SSW, is 7| miles; itsutmost breadth is 6§ miles ; aud its area is 14,500 acres.Megget Water, rising at an altitude of 1500 feet, winds7^ miles east-north-eastward to St Maet's Loch, on theway being joined by Cramalt, Glengaber, and sixteenother burns, which all, like itself, afford capital troutfishing.Along St Mary's Loch the surface declines toclose on 800 feet above sea-level, and chief elevations tothe S of Megget Water as one goes up the valley areBridgend Hill {1594 feet), Craigdilly (1923), aud *LochcraigHead (2625) ; to the N, Broomy Law (1750), *DeerLaw (2065), *Black Law (2285), Clockmore (2100),*Norman Law (2408), and *Broad Law (2723), whereasterisks mark those summits that culminate on the'confines of the parish. The high-lying ground herebrown, heathy, and pastoral—is perhaps the wildest inthe South of Scotland, visited only by shepherds andsportsmen.The predominant rocks are Silurian. Barely oneseventeenthof the entire area is in tillage, the restbeing pastoral or waste ; but such arable land asthere is has a gravelly soil of fair fertility, with asouthern exposure in Lyne. AVhere now there is scarcea tree, of old was forest, Meggetland or Rodonna'having formed part of the royal Forest of Etteickdown to Queen Mary's reign. A ruined tower atCramalt is said to have been a royal hunting-seatand lower domi the dale, on Henderlasd farm, stood'Cockburn's Castle, scene of the Border Widow'sLament.' A large British fort is on Hamildean Hilland just to the W of L3me church are remains of a'Roman camp. Randal's Walls ' it was called at thebeginning of last century ; and, as depicted in Roy'sMilitary Antiquities (1795), it has an extreme lengthand breadth of 850 and 750 feet, its four environingramparts, 4 to 5 feet high, being pierced by fourentrances. Since then, however, the plough has greatlydestroyed it. The Earl of Wemyss is almost sole proprietor.Lyne is in the presbytery of Peebles and thesynod of Lothian and Tweeddale ; the living is worth£215. Crowning a grassy mound, above the left bankof Lyne Water, the parish church is a pretty, antiquestructure, rebuilt or renovated in 1644 by John, LordHay of Yester, and containing 80 sittings. Meggetchapel dates from the beginning of this century.Lyneand Megget public schools, with respective accommodationfor 47 .and 29 children, had (1882) an averageattendance of 39 and 11, and grants of £47, 9s. and £2415s. 6d. Valuation (1863) £4497, 10s., (1884) £4852,12s. 6d. Pop. (1801) 167, (1831) 156,(1861) 134, (1871)174, (1881) 204, of whom 90 were in Megget. —0)-(?.Sur., shs. 24, 16, 1864.Lyne Burn, a rivulet of Dunfermline parish, SWFife, rising uear Crossgates in the NE corner of theparish, and running 7 miles south-westward and southwardthrough the interior and along the Torryburnborder, till it falls into the Firth of Forth immediatelyto the W of Charlestown. It is often called SpitalBurn, properly Hospital Burn, from its washing thesite of the ancient Hospital of St Leonard's at the Sside of Dunfermline town ; and it receives, a littleSW of that site, a tributary coming 2i miles southwardfrom Lochhead.— Orf?. Sur., shs. 40, 32, 1867-57.Lynedoch Cottage or House, a mansion in Methvenparish, Perthshire, standing, amid beautiful grounds,on the left bank of the river Almond, 2 miles NNE ofMethven village] and 7 WNW of Perth. The estate567