KIRKINTILLOCH  , a municipal and

police burgh of Dumbartonshire, Scotland . Pop . (1901),1o,680 . It is situated 8 m . N.E. of Glasgow, by the North British railway, a portion of the parish extending into Lanarkshire . It lies on the Forth & Clyde canal, and the Kelvin—from which Lord Kelvin, the distinguished scientist, took the title of his barony—flows past the town, XV . 27where it receives from the north the Glazert and from the south the Luggie, commemorated by David Gray . The Wall of Antoninus ran through the site of the town, the Gaelic name of which (Caer, a fort, not Kirk, a church) means " the fort at the end of the ridge." The town became a burgh of barony under the Comyns in 1170 . The cruciform parish church with crow-stepped gables dates from 1644 . The public buildings include the town-hall, with a clock tower, the temperance hall, a convalescent home, the Broomhill home for incurables (largely due to Miss Beatrice Clugston, to whom a memorial was erected in 1891), and the Westermains asylum . In 1898 the burgh acquired as a private park the Peel, containing traces of the Roman Wall, a fort, and the foundation of Comyn's Castle . The leading industries are chemical manufactures, iron-founding, muslin-weaving, coal mining and timber sawing .

LENZIE, a suburb, a mile to the south of the old town, contains the imposing towered edifice in the Elizabethan

style which houses the Barony asylum . David Gray, the poet, was born at Merkland, near by, and is buried in Kirkintilloch churchyard, where a monument was erected to his memory in 1865 . KIRK-KILISSEH (KIRK-KILISSE or KIRK-KILISSIA), a town of European Turkey, in the vilayet of Adrianople, 35 M . E. of Adrianople . Pop . (1905), about 16,000, of whom about half are Greeks, and the remainder Bulgarians, Turks and Jews . Kirk-Kilisseh is built near the headwaters of several small tributaries of the river Ergene, and on the western slope of the Istranja Dagh . It owes its chief importance to its position at the southern outlet of the Fakhi defile over these mountains, through which passes the shortest road from Shumla to Constantinople . The name Kirk-Kilisseh signifies " four churches," and the town possesses many mosques and Greek churches . It has an important trade with Constantinople in butter and cheese, and also exports wine, brandy, cereals and tobacco .