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Title: The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Murray, Hugh, 1779-1846 Wallace, William, 1768-1843 Bradford, T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel), 1802-1887
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Publisher: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard
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ence has been, that they have preserved within their recesses a primi-tive people, who, in dress, language, and the whole train of their social ideas, differ essen-tially from the Lowlanders, and have retained antique and striking characteristics, bothphvsical and moral, that are obliterated in almost every other part of Great Britain. The Isles comprise tlie third part of Scotland. On the east, indeed, and even on greatpart of the south-west coast, only a few bold and naked rocks rise perpendicularly from theocean. But the western highlands are bordered by the Hebrides, an extensive range oflarge islands, some of which are separated from the continent by such narrow channels, thatthev mav almost be considered as forming part of it. Again, the northern extremity ofScotland is prolonged by the two ranges of the Orkney and Shetland islands, in a continu-ous line witli each other, but at some distance. These islands are rocky and bare, exposedVol. L 34* 3 A 103 MAP OF SCOTLAND. Fig. 184.
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Book I. SCOTLAND. 403 to excessive moisture and the perpetual storms of the Atlantic. The population bears, inlanguage and features, the marks of a Scandinavian origin; dating from the period vi^henthe piratical rovers of tlie north made extensive inroads on the western states of Europe. Among the Scottish mountains, the most considerable are the Grampians, a name whichis given very generally to all those which cover the surface of the Highlands, but appliedmore particularly to the chain running across the counties of Perth and Argyle, and com-prising Ben Lomond, Ben Ledi, Ben More, Ben Lawers, and others of that elevated ridgewhich directly face the low country of Stiding and Perth. Several of these mountainsexceed the altitude of 4000 feet. Ben Nevis rises to the height of 4315 feet. Onthe borders of Inverness and Ross-shire, Ben VVyvis, and some others, are of nearly equalelevation. The south of Scotland is also very hilly ; but its heights are seldom more than2000 feet, green and

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