US A V I E W O F 



A VIEW 



THE HIGHLANDS, 



JNCLUDI^G THE 



^EBRIDE, ORKNEY, AND SHETLAND 

 ISLANDS. 



Qivifions and Face of the Country. 



SCOTLAND admits of two grand diyifions, the 

 Lowlands and the Highlands. 



The firft divifion comprehends the countries fouth- 

 jvard of the Forth, with the eaftern coaft, as far 

 north as Inverness. In this divifion the language, 

 manners, and drefs of the people, are nearly the 

 fame as in England, This is alfo the moft fertile 

 and improved part of the kingdom, wherein are fitu- 

 ated the towns of any note ; the feats of manu- 

 factures, commerce, and navigation^ as before de- 

 fcribed. 



The fecond divifion remains to be confidered ; it 

 comprehends the weft fide of the kingdom, from Can- 

 tire to the Pentland Firth, with the Hebride Ifles ; alfo 

 the interior parts of Scotland, from the Firth of 

 Clyde, Loch Lomond, and Loch Tay northward 3 

 and here the people fpeak the Erie or Gaulic lan- 

 guage, drefs in the antient Roman manner, and have, 

 till of late years, lived almoft in a ftate of nature. 



The face of the country, in this divifion, : exhibits 



one 



