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ISBN-10: 1458920569
ISBN-13: 9781458920560
Edition: N/A
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... rate, or the best informed student protect him-1057, 11oself against the error. The most accessible and ' popular sources perpetuate the misapprehension, concealing the oecumenical interest belonging to Scotland's vicissitudes and fortunes. Begin with the Tales of a Grandfather. The volume opens in its first chapter by describing the Scotland of Macbeth and Banquo as a solid country, separated from England by Solway and Tweed; a definition which, so long as it retains… any hold upon the memory, will ever denaturalize the incidents related with such exquisite skill. In the work intended to instruct the reader of more advanced age, the truth is obscured amidst details of Picts and Caledonians. Lastly, the classical history of Scotland, which supersedes every previous investigation, omits the geography of the ancient realm altogether. We must, therefore, reiterate the substance Kecapitu ' lation of of a former lesson. Take the map before you; riMMd perambulate the regions included in Modern cTM?nsg Scotland, following the rivers, ascending the pictih0to" mountains, descending into the marches andMonarchy' plains, and again consider the chorography of the realm.--Sutherland and Caithness in the North, are Norwegian. Malcolm's dominions are composed of the following territories;--English Lothian, from the Island-Shire of St. Cuthbert 1057,1107 to the water of Forth, divided from the southern " parts of Strath Clyde by hill and fell, and by the waste, which, commencing on the border of Hexham-Shire, had either remained uncultivated, or relapsed into primeval solitude.--Strath Clyde and Galloway, from the Lome to and beyond the valley of Clyde, until the Mounth, the Hills of ancient Drumalbane;--Argyle, from the same mountains, but winding...