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In the population return of 1811, this parifh is dated to 

 contain 229 houfcs, and 936 inhabitants. Four-fifths of the 

 parirti is the property of the earl of Fife, whofe plantations 

 cover an extent of 2478 acres, and add greatly to the beauty 

 and ornament of the country. Innes-houfe, one of the nu- 

 merous feats of the earl, is a noble manfion : it was formerly 

 the refidence of the ancient family of Innes, whofe annals are 

 marked with fignal calamities. A priory was founded in this 

 parirti fo early as the year 1125, by king David I.; the 

 fcite has been recently converted into an arable field ; and the 

 name of Abbey-Well, which the country-people ftill give to 

 the fountain that fupplied the monks with water, is the only 

 memorial now remaining. — Gazetteer of Scotland, 1806. 

 Carhfle's Topographical Diftionary of Scotland, 181 3. 



Urquhart is alfo the name of a parirti, now united with 

 that of Glen-Morifton, in the rtiire of Invernefs, Scotland. 

 The united parirties occupy an extent of 30 miles in length, 

 and from 8 to 12 miles in breadth. By the return of the 

 year 181 1, the population is dated to be 2446 ; the number of 

 houfes482. The church is fituated at Kilmore, in Urquhart : 

 at Meikly, fix miles up the country, is a good chapel ; and 

 in Glen-Moridon are two refpeftable meeting-houfes, where 

 the duty is performed by a miffionary minider. The fur- 

 face is, in general, mountainous, but comprehends the two 

 raileys of Urquhart and Glen-Moridon, which extend in a 

 wedernly direftion from loch Nefs, nearly parallel to each 

 other, and feparated by a ridge of lofty mountains ; the 

 highed of which, Mealfuarmhonie, is elevated 3060 feet 

 above the level of the fea. Urquhart is a rich, though not a 

 deep, loam, and uncommonly fruitful ; the foil of Glen- 

 Moridon is very inferior, being light and fandy. Three 

 rivers pafs through thefe parirties, the Morildon, Emeric, and 

 Coiltie ; they all fall into loch Nefs, and in their courfe 

 form feveral magnificent cafcades. The roads and bridges 

 are in good repair ; and at Borlem, a fubdantial bridge of 

 three arches has been recently built over the Coiltie. On a 

 rocky promontory, on the W. fide of loch Nefs, are the ruins 

 of Urquhart- cadle : the loch warties the ead wall, and the 

 other three fides were fortified with a ftrong rampart, a ditch, 

 and a drawbridge. Within the walls were accommodations 

 for five hundred men. This cadle was a royal fort, and was 

 granted by king James IV. in 1509, with the lorddiip of 

 Urquhart, to fir John Grant, chief of that ancient family, 

 and ancedor to the prefent earl of Seafield. In the valley 

 oppofite to the cadle are the remains of a religious fioufe 

 which belonged to the knights templars ; and the fcite is dill 

 called " The Temple." At Corrymony, in Glen-Moridon, 

 are to be fcen vediges of a drnidical temple, in which the 

 middle of the circle is occupied by a cairn of loofe dones,on 

 the fummit of which is one very large done. — Gazetteer of 

 Scotland, 1806. Beauties of Scotland, vol. v., Invernefs- 

 (hire, 1808. Carlirte's Topographical Diftionary of Scot- 

 land, 181 3. 



Urquhart is alfo a parirti, now united with that of 

 Logie-Weder, fituated partly in the rtiire of Nairn, and 

 partly in the rtiire of Rofs, Scotland. It extends about 

 nine miles in length, and four in breadth ; lying along the 

 eadern fide of the Firth of Cromarty, and terminated by 

 the river Conan, which here difchargcs itfelf into that arm 

 of the fea. The furfacc is level, diverCficd by fertile fields, 

 and (heltered by plantations. A new church has been lately 

 built, on a more eligible fituntion than the old ftnifture. 

 The population of the united parirties was dated, in the re- 

 turn of the year 181 i, to be, for that part in the rtiire of 

 Nairn, 15 10, occupying 369 lioufes, and for the part in 

 Rofsrtiire, 2664, in 634 houfes; making a total of 1003 

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houfes, and 4174 ihhabitants. The property of the whole 

 is divided among three heritors, who all portefs elegant feat*. 

 Thefe are, Findon, the property of fir Roderick Macken- 

 zie, of Scattwell : on this edate is a fmall market-town, on 

 the high road from Dingwall to Cromarty, where four an- 

 nual fairs are held : Ferrintorti, belonging to Mr. Forbes of 

 CuUodcn ; this barony long enjoyed the exclufive privilege of 

 didilling whi/ky without being fubjcft to the excife laws ; 

 but in 1786 the right was refumed by government, the fupe- 

 riorof the barony being allowed 20,000/. as a compenfation : 

 and Conan-fidc, the feat of fir Heftor Mackenzie, of Gair- 

 loch, on whofe edate are plantations of firs and fored-trees, 

 of confiderable extent, and in a flourirtiing condition Ga- 

 zetteer of Scotland, 1806. Carlirte's Topographical Dic- 

 tionary of Scotland, 1813. 



URRIN, a river of the county of Wexford, Ireland, 

 which joins the Slaney, a little fouth of Ennifcorthy. 



URRIS Head, a cape of the county of Mayo, Ireland) 

 the northern point of the peninfula of the Mullet. N. lat. 

 54=17'. W. long. 9° 51'. 



URRISBEG, a mountain of Ireland, in the county of 

 Galway, near the fea-coad ; 38 miles W. of Galvvay. 



URROLA, a river of Spain, in Guipufcoa, wliichruns 

 into the fea, between the Orio and the Deva. 



URROZ, a town of Spain, in Navarre ; 12 miles S.S.E. 

 of Pamplona. 



URRY, in Rural Economy, a term fometimes applied to 

 a fort of blue or black clay, lying near a vein of coal. 



URSA, in AJlronomy, the Bear, a name common to two 

 condellations of the northern hemifphere, near the pole ; dif- 

 tinguirtied by Major and Minor, 



Uksa Major, or the Great Bear, according to Ptole- 

 my's Catalogue, confids of 35 dars ; according to Tycho's, 

 of 56 ; according to Hevelius's, of 73 ; but in the Britan- 

 nic Catalogue, we have 87. See Constellation. 



Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, called alfo Charles's Wain ; 

 and, by the Greeks, Cynofura ; and us neighbourhood to 

 the north pole gives the denomination apHTo-r, bear, to it. 

 Ptolemy makes it confift of 8 dars ; Tycho, of 7 ; He- 

 velius, of 1 2 ; but Mr. Flamfieed of 24. See Constel- 

 lation. 



Ursa, Cape, in Geography, a cape of Sicily, on the N. 

 coad. N. lat. 38« 18'. E. long. 13° 11'. 



URSAKOWA, a town of Prudia, in the territory of 

 Culm ; 15 miles N.E. of Thorn. 



URSCH ENDOW, a town of Audrian Poland, in G.v 

 licia ; 28 miles S.W. of Lublin. 



URSEL, a town of Germany, in the county of Ko- 

 nigdein ; 5 miles E.N.E. of Konigdein. 



LIRSENTANI, in /Indent Geography, a people of Italy, 

 in the interior of Lucania. Pliny., 



URSEOLA, or Ursolis, a town of Gallia Narbon- 

 nenfis, upon the route from Milan to Vienna, in parting by 

 the Cottian Alps. See Ursoi.i. 



URSEREN, in Geography, a celebrated valley of Swit- 

 zerland, into which is an opening by a fubtcrrancan paflage, 

 through a rock of granite, called " Urner-loch," 9 feet 

 broad, 10 high, and 220 long. In this valley are four vil- 

 lages, viz. Urfcren, Hopital, Rcalp, and Zandorf, which 

 form a fmall republic under the proteftion of Uri. Its ter- 

 ritory is about nine miles in length, .ind two in breadth, and 

 contains about 1300 inhabitants. The people, in their ge- 

 neral artembly, elc6t their " Talamman," or thief, and alfo 

 fomc other niagidratcs ; and there is a permanent council of 

 fifteen members, who artemblc in each of the dillcrent dif- 

 4 A trifle. 



