Dess, ry. sta., 3 miles NE. of Aboyne, Aberdeenshire;
1 mile E., on river Dee, is Desswood House.

Betchant, township, in par. and 2 miles NW. of
Belford, N. Northumberland, 2178 ac., pop. 109.

Dethlek and Lea, township, Ashover par., E. Derby-
shire, on Cromford Canal, 2 miles SE. of Matlock Bath
ry. sta., 1826 ac., pop. 1036.

Detling, par., Kent; P.O. See Debtling.

Better, stream, Cardiganshire; rises near Capel
Cynon, and flows 6 miles SE. to the Teifi at Llandyssil.

Deucaledonian Sea, ancient name of the Hebridean
part of the Atlantic.

Deucliar, seat, 8 miles W. of Brechin, Forfarshire;
adjacent is Deucliar Hill, alt. 970 ft.

Deucliar Tower, on left bank of Yarrow Water, Sel-
kirkshire, near Yarrow church; in vicinity is the
morrass called Beucliar-Swire.

Dcugli, rivulet, N. Kirkcudbrightshire; flows 20 m.
SE. to Water of Ken 4¼ miles NAY. of Dairy.

Deuxhill, par., S. Shropshire, 4¼ miles SW. of
Bridgnorth, 487 ac., pop. 45.

Devaar, island, Argyllshire. See Davaab.

Devandon Green, eminence, SE. Monmouthshire, 4
miles NW. of Chepstow.

Bevanha, distillery, in city of Aberdeen.

Devonisk, par., N. co. Fermanagh, 4 miles NW. of
Enniskillen, 30,601 ac., pop. 4235; in Lough Erne is
Devenish Island (123 ac., pop. 7), on which are abbey
ruins and a round tower.

Deverell, hill with barrow, mid. Dorset, 9 miles NE.
of Dorchester.

Deverill, stream, S. Wilts; rises on border of co.
near Maiden Bradley, and flows 7 miles NE. to the
Wiley, 1¼ mile SE. of Warminster.

Deveron, river, Aberdeenshire and Banffshire; rises
among the mountains of Cabrach, flows NE., receiving
the Blackwater, the Bogie, and the Isla, and falls into
the sea between Banff and Macduff; is 61 miles long,
and is well stocked with salmon and trout.

Devil’s Arrows, three monumental pillars of mill-
stone grit, ¼ mile S. of Boroughbridge, West-Riding
Yorkshire ; 18, 22, and 31 ft. high.

Devil’s Beef Tnb, vast hollow (close to the public
road), N. Dumfriesshire, 5 miles NW. of Moffat; also
called the “ Marquis of Annandale’s Beef Stand.”

Devil’s Bellows, deep chasm on the coast, Asparagus
island, W. Cornwall, near Lizard Head.

Devil’s Bit Mountains, N. co. Tipperary, on SW.
border of King’s co., greatest alt. 2084 ft.; so-called
from a peculiar gap in the ridge.

DevU’s Bridge, hamlet, 10 miles SE. of Aberyst-
with, Cardiganshire; P.O.; takes its name from a double
bridge, lower and upper, across a chasm 114 ft. deep
traversed by the river Mynach; the lower was built in
the 11th century, and the upper (20 ft. over it) in 1753;
the chasm is upwards of a mile long, and the river in
traversing it makes four falls of 18, 60, 20, and 110 ft.

Devil’s Brig and Devil’s Dyke. See Deil’s Beig
and Deil’s Dyke.

DevU’s Cauldron.—ancient circular structure, Bute
island, near head of Kilchattan Bay; is supposed to
have been a place of penance.—2. Devil’s Cauldron,
romantic chasm with cascade, on river Lednock, Perth-
shire, 1¼ mile N. of Comrie.

Devil’s Causeway, Roman road, Northumberland,
stretching N. from Roman Wall past Great Whitting-
ton, Hartburn, and Longhorsley to Longframlington.

DevU’s Cave, in Kincraig Hill, Kilconquhar par., Fife.

HevU’s Chair, rock at Plemont Point, NW. extremity
of Jersey, Channel Islands.

Devil’s Ditch, ancient work, Cambridgeshire; extends
from the fens at Reach to vicinity of Ditton-Wood.

Devil’s Dyke, great chasm, on South Downs, W.
Sussex, 4¼ miles NW. of Brighton.

Devil’s Elbow, crook (2000 ft.) on the road over the
Grampians from Alyth to Braemar; at The Cairnwell.

DevH’s Garden, hollows, abounding in rare and
beautiful wild flowers, in the Stanner Rocks, in co. and
3¼ miles SE. of Radnor.

Devil’s Glen, wild ravine with waterfall, on river
Yartry, E. co. AVicklow, 4 miles from Rathnew.

Devil’s Highway, Roman road across Bagshot Heath,
Berks; formed part of the road from Sil Chester to London.