. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Book I. SCOTLAND 401 land, they are not, nor ever were, parcel of the realm of England. The climate is mildand agreeable, and the soil generally fertile. Jersey, the finest of the group, is so abundantin orchards, that cider forms the chief object of exportation. St. Holier, the capital of Jersey,is a handsome Mu t (jail «aj CHAPTER III. SCOTLAND The place which Scotland holds as part of Great Britain, has already been exhibited intlie introduction to the chapter
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. Book I. SCOTLAND 401 land, they are not, nor ever were, parcel of the realm of England. The climate is mildand agreeable, and the soil generally fertile. Jersey, the finest of the group, is so abundantin orchards, that cider forms the chief object of exportation. St. Holier, the capital of Jersey,is a handsome Mu t (jail «aj CHAPTER III. SCOTLAND The place which Scotland holds as part of Great Britain, has already been exhibited intlie introduction to the chapter on England. We shall now describe in detail this import-ant, though secondary, member of the empire. Sect. I.—Geographical is bounded on the south by England, from which it is separated by a line drawnalong the Tweed, the Cheviot Hills, and thence to the Solway Frith. On every other side it is bounded by the Atlantic, the Northernand the German oceans. The ength ofScotland, from the Mull of Gallowayijig. 183.), in about 54° 40 to DunnetHead, Caithness, in 58° 40, is 280 greatest breadth, from Buchan-Ness toa point on the opposite shore of Inverness is130 miles. This breadth varies little in theinterval between the friths of Forth and]\Ioray; but to the south of the former, theaverage breadth scarcely exceeds 100, andto the north of the Moray Frith, 40 or 50miles. The entire extent of Scotland is29,60
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