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Title: Celtic Scotland : a history of ancient Alban
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Skene, William Forbes, 1809-1892
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ersected indeed by riversforming narrow and easily defended passes, but exhibitingthe appearance of a mighty wall, which separates a wild andmountainous region from the well-watered and fertile plainsand straths on the south and east; and, while the latter havebeen at all times exposed to the vicissitudes of externalrevolution, and the greatly more important and radical changefrom the silent progress of natural colonisation, the recessesof the Highlands have ever proved the shelter and protectionof the descendants of the older tribes of the country, and thelimit to the advance of a stranger population. The territory which forms the modern kingdom of Scot-land is thus thrown by its leading physical features into ® Nam Clota et Bodotria, diversi omiiis propior sinus tenebatur, sum- maris sestibus per immensiim revectse motis velut in aliam insulam hostibus. angusto terrarum spatio dirimuntui: —Tacit, in Fit. Ag,Quod turn prtesidiis firmabatur: atque w MAP SUiTWlNCr MOUNTAIN CHAINS 58
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^^l-diLi^oJautcn^Jf^oi^raK INTRODUCTION. 9 three great compartments. First, the districts extendingfrom the Sol way, the Cheviots, and the Tweed, on the south,to the Firths of Forth and Clyde on the north; secondly, thelow country extending along the east coast from the Forth asfar as the Moray Firth, and lying between the sea and thegreat barrier of the Grampians ; and thirdly, the Highland ormountainous region on the north-west. In each of these great districts natural boundaries Mountainare again found exercising their influence on the subor-dinate political divisions. In the first of these great com-partments, the lofty range of the Cheviots, which forms Thethe southern boundary and presents a steep face to the ^^^^° ^*north, extends from the Cheviot Hill on the north-east byCarter Fell to Peel Fell on the south-west; and fromthence a range of hills, sometimes included in the generalname of the Cheviots, separates the district of Liddesdalefrom that of Teviotdale, and has its hig

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