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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Balcarres	Fife	Bass, the Lammermuirs, and Edinburgh. Originally built in 1595, in the Scoto-Flemish Gothic of the period, it retains its fine dining-room, its turnpike stair, and its thick-walled bedchamber, ' Oliver Cromwell's Room; ' but otherwise was much enlarged and altered in the first half of the present century. A ruined ivy-clad chapel, hard by, erected about 1635, serves as the family burial-place; and, 200 yards to the E, Balcarres Craig, a turreted rock	Groome
  Bass	East Lothian	Bass, in 1706, became the property of Sir Hew Dalrymple of North Berwick; and it has since continued in the possession of his descendants. Mr James Miller published, in 1825, a poem, entitled, St Baldred of the -Bass, with notes containing curious legendary matter respecting the rock	Groome
  Bass Rock	East Lothian	Bass Rock , a precipitous and nearly circular islet, 2 miles off Haddingtonshire coast, at entrance to Firth of Forth. It is 350 ft. high	Bartholomew
  Ben Ledi	Perthshire	Bass Rock to the Paps of Jura, and from the Moray Firth to the Lowther Mountains. The ascent of it is everywhere	Groome
  Berwick, North	East Lothian	Bass Rock, and Tantallon (1874), for the first of which a club-house was erected on the West Links in 1880 at a cost	Groome
  Borrowstounness or Bo'ness	West Lothian	Bass Rock to Ben Ledi, a distance of more than 70 miles, and which Glennie's Arthurian -Localities (1869) identifies	Groome
  CLARE	Clare	bass are sometimes caught at the mouths of the rivers, and many kinds of flat fish, together with mackarel and whiting, are taken in abundance in their respective seasons. Oysters are procured on many parts of the coast; those taken at Pouldoody, on the coast of Burren, have long been in high repute for their fine flavour. The bed is of small extent, and the property of a private gentleman, and they are not publicly sold. Near Pouldoody is the great Burren oyster bed, called the Red Bank, where a large establishment is maintained, and from which a constant supply	Lewis:Ireland
  Dalmeny	West Lothian	Bass Rock, and of Edinburgh. The grounds are very extensive, being hill and dale and wood The house is quite	Groome
  Dunbar	East Lothian	rock-promontories with which that shore is niched and vandyked, as far as the eye can reach. A beautiful sea; good land too, now that the plougher understands his trade; a grim niched barrier of whinstone sheltering it from the chafings and tumblings of the big blue German Ocean. Seaward St Abb's Head, of whinstone, bounds your horizon to the E, not very far off; W, close by, is the deep bay and fishy little village of Belhaven; the gloomy Bass	Groome
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Bass amid the waters. Picturesque views of the city, either by itself or in combination with strips of foreground, may be obtained from various points all round and beyond the outskirts, each one of which, as it embraces separately distinct features and groupings, will be found to be more or less substantially different from the others. One at hand on the W, especially from the lands of Coates, takes in the new princely piles in the neighbourhood, the spire of St Mary's Cathedral, the dome of St George's parish church, the campanile of Free St George's, with	Groome
  Forth	Clackmannanshire Fife Perthshire Stirlingshire	Bass Rock on the S and the Isle of May on the N. The estuary in mid channel has a maximum	Groome
  Foutainhall	East Lothian	Bass Rock from the 13th to the 16th century. His son, Sir John (1646-1722), an eminent lawyer and statesman	Groome
  Haddingtonshire or East Lothian	East Lothian	Bass Rock. Haddingtonshire has on the whole a northern exposure, stretching from its highest point in the S, where the Lammermuir	Groome
  Kiltearn	Ross Shire	Bass Rock 1677 and 1677-1679; put to the horn 1674; intercommuned 1675; fined 5000 merks 1683; and banished furth	Groome
  LIZARD (THE)	Cornwall	Bass Point, Hot Point, Kilkobben Cove, Parnvose Cove, Raven's Hugo, Dolor Hugo, the Balk of Landewednack, Cadge with village, the Devil's Frying Pan, Caerthillian ravine, Holestrow, the Yellow Carn, Tor Balk, Kinance Cove, the Rill headland, the Horse, Pigeon's Hugo, the Soap Rock	Imperial
  Ochil Hills	Clackmannanshire Perthshire Stirlingshire	Bass, the Pentlands, and part of Stirlingshire. The Devon is seen immediately below, winding through the valley like a silver thread. Beyond it is the Firth of Forth, clear, luminous, and tranquil like a mirror, and enshrined in the heart of a richly cultivated country. The windings of -its- upper part, with the islets, capes, and peninsulas which they form, are seen to more advantage here than from Stirling Castle. The small hills between the Ochils and Kincardine do not present the slightest inequality of surface, but seem sunk and confounded with the valley of the Devon; while the fields	Groome
  Spott	East Lothian	Bass Rock and the Isle of May. Partly a building of high antiquity, it was greatly improved soon after its acquisition	Groome
  Tantallon Castle	Berwickshire East Lothian	Bass, on a lofty precipitous rock, whose base is washed on three sides by the sea; and on the SW side	Groome
  Tantallon Castle	East Lothian	facing the Bass Rock, was the property of the Earl of Angus, and was dismantled by the Covenanters in 1639.	Bartholomew
  Tingwall	Shetland	Bass, to Cumberland, and to Ireland; it consists of eruptive rocks overcapping Silurian and Devonian rocks; on its SE skirt	Groome

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