A New Geographical, Historical and Commercial Grammar and Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1798 Excerpt: ... from south to north, nearly in a meridian: the Giants' Causeway appears first; Staffa, &c. succeeds; the rock Humbla about twenty leagues farther, and finally, those columns of Sky: the depth of the ocean, in all probability, conceals the vast link of this chain.."learning, Learned Men, And History. bee Scotland. SCOTLAND. EXTENT AND SITUATION. MILES. DEGREES. Length----300 ). f 54 and 59 North latitude. Breadth 190 s Denveen 1 and 6 West longitude. Name. THE Celtae or Gauls are supposed to have been the original inhabitants of this kingdom. The Scots, a Scythian tribe, invaded it about the beginning of tlie fourth century, and having conquered the Picts, the territories of both were called Scotland; and the word Scot is no other than a corruption of Scuyth, or Scythian, being originally from that immense country, called Scythia by the ancients. It is termed, by the Italians, Scotia; by the Spaniards, Efcotia; by the French, Ecofle j and Scotland by the Scots, Germans, and English. Boundaries.Scotland, which contains an area of 27,794 square miles, is bounded on the south by England; and on the north, cast, and west, by the Deucaledorsian, German, and Irish leas, or more properly, the Atlantic ocean. Divisions And Subdivisions. Scotland is divided into the counties south of the Frith of Forth, the capital of which, and of all the kingdom, is Edinburgh; and those to the north of the same river, where the chief town is Aberdeen. This was the ancient national division; but some modern writers, with less geographical accuracy, have divided it into Highlands and Lowlands, on account of the different habits, manners, and customs of the inhabitants of each. Eighteen counties, or (hires, are allotted to the southern division, and fifteen to the northern; and t..