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Scotland.
Table of the
counties.
Counties.
Counti/ Toxvns.
Square Acres.
Population.
Militia.
Orkney and Shetland
Caithnefs
Sutherland
Rofis
Cromarty
Invernels
Argyle
Bute
Nairn
Murray
Banff
Aberdeen
Meat ns
Angus
Perth
Fife
Kinrofs
Clackmannan
Stirling
Dumbarton
Linlithgow
Edinburgh
Haddington
Berwick.
Renfrew
Ayr
Wigton
Lanark
Peebles
Selkirk
Roxburgh
Dumfries
Kircudbright
Kirkwall
Wick
Dornoch
Dingwall
Cromarty
Invernefs
Inverary
Rothfay
Nairn
Elgin
Banff
Aberdeen
Bervie
Forfar
Perth
Cupar
Kinrofs
Culrofs
Stirling
Dumbarton
Linlithgow
Edinburgh
Haddington
Dunfe
Renfrew
Ayr
Wigton
Lanark
Peebles
Selkirk
Jedburgh
Dumfries
Kircudbright
492.800 E.
2,148,000 E.
561,200 E.
61,440 E.
2,944,000 E.
2,432,000 E.
238,080 E.
153.600 E.
537,6ooE.
649.600 E.
718,816 E.
243,444 E.
593,92° E.
4,068,640 E.
322.560 E.
43,920 E.
25,600 E.
450.560 E.
159»356 E.
57,008 S.
230.400 E.
224,000 E.
326.400 E.
322.560 E.
1,152,000 E.
238,721 S.
556.800 E.
153.600 E.
128,000 E.
472,320 E.
1,088,000 E.
440,081 S.
46.824
22,609
23>I '7
53.525
3>°52
74,292
75,7oo
II,79I
8,257
26,705
35,807
123,071
26,349
99,127
126,366
93,743
6,725
10,858
50.825
20,710
17,844
122,954
29,986
30,206
78,056
84,306
22,918
147,796
8,7i7
5,070
33»712
54,597
29,211
1,604,826
121
100
270
16
384
364
61
43
*38
119
640
136
511
653
484
35
56
163
107
94
645
J54
155
404
436
119
75*
45
25
178
284
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8902
Seotlanc!.
For a topographical account of the feveral counties,
the reader is referred to their names in the order of the
^ alphabet.
face of the _ Scotland is in general extremely mountainous, efpe-
j country. daily on the northern and weftern fides, whence thefe
parts have been denominated the Highlands. Even the
eaftern and fouthern parts of the country have very lit¬
tle of that uniform flatnefs which diftinguifhes fome
parts of England, but are agreeably diverfified with hill
and dale. Numerous rivers interfeft the country ; and
feveral romantic lakes are found at the foot of the moft
remarkable mountains. There is in general little wood,
except in the northern parts, where there are ftill im-
menfe forefts. Nothing can appear more wild and fa-
vage to the eye of a ftranger than the Highlands of
Scotland. Here the whole country feems compofed of
blue rocks and dulky mountains heaped upon each other,
with their fides embrowned with heath, and their fum-
mits covered with fnow, which lies unthawed for the
greater part of the year, or pours down their jagged
lides in a thoufand torrents and roaring catara&s, fall¬
ing into gloomy vales or glens, fome of which are
fo deep and narrow, as to be altogether impenetrable
by the rays of the fun. Yet even thefe mountains are
in fome places doped into agreeable green hills fit for
pafture, and interfperfed with pleafant ftraths or valleys
capable of cultivation ; and there are feveral extenfive
diftriefs of low fertile ground, though in other parts the
interftices of the mountains are rendered nearly impalfa-
ble by bogs and moraffes. The entrance into the High¬
lands from the fouth-eaft near Dunkeld, is peculiarly
impreflive, there being here a confiderable trad of plain,
extending to what may be caUed the gates oft he moun¬
tains.
The
Note.—The writers on Scottifli topography have noted the extent of the feveral counties, fometimes in Englifti
and iometimes in Scotch acres. We have therefore affixed to the numbers exprefling the acres of each county E
or b, according as they are Englifh or Scotch. The reader may reduce them to either ftandard by recolledinn
taat the Scotch acre exceeds the Englifh nearly in the proportion of five to four.