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MILNGAVIE (locally pronounced Millguy)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 478 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILNGAVIE (locally pronounced Millguy) , a See also:police See also:burgh of See also:Dumbartonshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901), 3481. It lies 6 m. N.N.W. of See also:Glasgow by the See also:North See also:British railway. The See also:chief See also:industries include bleach-See also:fields, dye-See also:works, a distillery and a See also:paper See also:mill; but the See also:town is largely a residential See also:quarter for Glasgow business men. See also:Close to the town are two reservoirs, Mugdock (62 acres) and Craigmaddie (88 acres), in which is stored the See also:water from See also:Loch See also:Katrine. Mugdock See also:Castle, ri m. N. of Milngavie, is an old stronghold of the Grahams; in Baldernock See also:parish, about 2 M. E., stands a cromlech, called "the Auld Wives' Lift " (400 ft. high), commanding a See also:fine view of the lands between the Forth and See also:Clyde. Dougalston Loch, m. S.E., contains several rare aquatic See also:plants.

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