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Title: The gazetteer of Scotland. (With plates and maps.)
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Chambers, William, 1800-1883 Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871
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Publisher: Glasgow
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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f Forth, forty-eight miles from the bordersof England. The latitude of its observatory is55° 5720 ; its longitude, west, 3° 10 30. Itsdistance from London is 392 miles; from Ber-wick-upon-Tweed, 57 ; from Haddington 17 ;from Kelso: 42 ; from Melrose 36 ; from Cold-stream 47 ; from Carlisle 92;; from Peebles22 ; from Lanark 32 ; from Dumfries 71 ; fromAyr, by Carnwath 76 \ ; from Glasgow, by Fal-12. kirk, 46;, by Airdrie, 42;, by Mid-Calder, 44;from Stirling, by Falkirk, 35^ ; from SouthQueensferry 9; from Dunfermline 16; fron?Dundee, 42; from Cupar-Fife, by Kirkcaldy,29; from Perth 44 ; from Aberdeen, by Perthand Forfar, 121 ; from Inverness, by Aber-deen, 243; by Blair Athole and Aviemore,152 ; from Wick 295 ; from Thurso 316 ; andfrom Johno Groats House, or the most north-ern point of Scotland, 314. These distancesare always undergoing a mutation by the im-provement and shortening of the roads. A proper knowledge of the configuration ofthe ground on which the city of Edinburgh has
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g 1 EDINBURGH. 283 been built, will considerably lessen the diffi-culty of comprehending a variety of details re-garding its present and prospective condition.From the shore of the Firth of Forth, theground rises gently towards the south, till, atthe distance of a mile, it reaches a level offrom fifty to a hundred feet above the surfaceof the sea. Here a congeries of hills andswelling grounds, alluded to in the precedingarticle, suddenly ruffles the smooth surface ofthe country, having been to all appearancecast up by the influence of some tremendousexplosion, or convulsion, such as it would nowbe difficult to explain, in regard to its causes, itsprocess, or its results. A circle of four or fivemiles would embrace this series of hills, which,even in their natural state, must have had avery remarkable and striking appearance. Thecentral individual in the chain, which can becompared to nothing so aptly as to a wedgelying flat upon the ground, is terminated, at itshighest part, by a mass

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