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;. lemple dedicated to the god Terminus. The moll northerly 

 Roman camp yet difcovered is fituated on the river Ythan, 

 ia Aberdeenfhire ; and there are fonie roads extending into the 

 ijounty of Angus ; but the chief remains of them are fouth of 

 the walls. The monuments of the Pictifh era confift of thofe 

 circles of ftones, cromlechs, &c. ufually, but erroneoufly, 

 ilenominated Druidical temples ; and of thofe artificial 

 mounds, or hills, whence, the Piftifh and Dalriad kings 

 '>re wont to promulgate their laws. The mod remarkable 

 1 one circles in the kingdom are thofe in the ifle of Lewis, 

 lid on the Mainland of Orkney. The ftruftures commonly 

 illed " Pifts' houfes," and the heaps of ftones called 

 '• cairns," or " karns," have alfo been i'uppofed to belong 

 til this age ; but Pinkerton refers the latter entirely to the 

 Dalriads, or Scots, and thinks the former may be Danifti, 

 a5 it is certain fimilar edifices have been traced in Scandi- 

 j navia. They feem to have confilted of a vaft hall, open to 

 ' the fky in the centre, and having recedes for beds, &c. in 

 the wall. " Thefe buildings," fays the author laft men- 

 tioned, " are remarkable, as difplaying the firft elements of 

 I the Gothic cafile ; and the caftle of Coningfburgh, in York- 

 ' fhire, forms an eafy tranfition." The remains of later ages 

 ^re the fculptured obelill<s at Forres, and other places ; 

 which are probably monuments of fignal events, fuch as 

 battles and treaties of peace ; the noted vitrified forts, and 

 churches, abbeys, and caftles almoit innumerable. Among 

 the more remarkable buildings which owe their origin to 

 religion, are the abbies of Melrofe, .Tedburgh, and Aber- 

 brothick ; the cathedrals of Dunkeld, Glafgow, and Brechin ; 

 and the chapel of Roflyn, near Edinburgh. The laft is one 

 of the moft Angular and interefting remains of ancient archi- 

 tefture in Great Britain ; and Melrofe abbey may vie with 

 many in England, both as to the extent and magnificence 

 of its buildings. 



The following is a lift of the books occafionally confulted 

 during the compilation of this article. Joannis de Fordun 

 .Scotichronicon, cum fupplem. et contin. Walteri Boweri ; 



2 vols. fol. Edin. 1759. Scotia illuftrata, &c. Auft. 

 Rob. Sibbald. fol. 1684. The Hiftory of the Church of 

 Scotland, from A.D. 203, to Death of James VI. ; by John 

 •Spotfwood ; fol. Lond. i655', 2d edit. 1677. Georgii 

 Euchanani Omnia Opera ; curantc Thoma Rtiddimanno ; 



3 vols. fol. Edin. 17 15. This work contains his Hiftory 

 of Scotland ; a treatife De Jure Regni apud Scotos ; 

 another, entitled A6tio contra Mariam Scotorum Reginam ; 

 and a third, entitled Detcftio Marise Reginse Scotorum ; his 

 letters, poems, and fome pieces on language. Colleftion of 

 Treatifes, in folio, concerning Scotland, written by fir Ro- 

 bert Sibbald, Edin. 1707. This work comprifcs, among 

 other pieces, Hillorical In(|uiries concerning Roman An- 

 tiquities ; Conjc£lurcs concerning the Roman Ports, Colo- 

 nies, and Forts ; and An Account of the Writers ancient and 

 modern, which treat of the Delcription of Scotland. Trac- 

 tatus varii ad Scotix antiqwx et modcrna; Uilloriain faci- 

 cntes, viz. Introduftio ad Hilloriam Vcteris Scotia?, 

 &c. ; Specimen Glollarii ; Commentarius in Julii Agfri- 

 colx Expcditioncs, &c. in illuftratione textus Taciti. Mif- 

 cellanea quxdam eruditx Antiqtiitates qux ad Borcalcm 

 Biitannix Majoris Partem pertinent. Vindicix Scotix il- 

 luftrati, &c. An Account of the Scottifli Atlas ; or, the 

 Defcriptlon of Scotland, ancient and modern ; fol. Edin. 

 1683. The Libertie and Indepcndencie of the Kingdom 

 and Church of Scotland aflertcd from ancient Records ; by 

 Robert Sibbald; 4to. Edin. 1 703. SeleCtus Diplomatum 

 ct Nnmifmata Scotix Thefaurus, &c. ; ab Jacobo Ander- 

 fono. Edited by Thomas Ruddiman ; fol. Edin. 1739. 

 Hiftory of the Affairs in Church and State in Scotland, 



from the Commencement of the Reformation to 1568 ; by 

 Robert Keith ; fol. Edin. 1734. The Hiftory of Scot- 

 land, by David Scott; fol. WVftminfter, 1727. Itinera- 

 rium Septentrionale ; by Alex. Gordon; fol. Lond. 1726. 

 Scotorum Hiftorix a prima Gentis Origine, &c. Hedore 

 Bocthio auftore ; fol. Parifiis, 1574. Lives of the Officers 

 of State, by George Crawford ; fol. Edin. 1726. Lives 

 and Charafters of Scottifli Writers, by George Mackenzie ; 

 3 vols, folio, Edin. 170S. Iconograpiiia Scotica ; i :r, Por- 

 traits of illuftrious Perfons ; by John Pinkerton ; 410. 

 Lond. 1797. Hiftory of Scotland, from the carlieft Ac- 

 counts to A.D. 1437 ; by William Maitland ; continued 

 by another hand ; 2 vols. fol. Lond. 1757. The Hiftorie of 

 tlie Rcformatioun of Religioun within the Realm of Scot- 

 land, by John Knox ; edited from his MS. in the Univerfity 

 of Glafgow ; fol. Edin. 1732. The true Hiftory of the 

 Church of Scotland, from the Beginning of the Reformation 

 to the Death of James VL ; by David Calderwood ; fol. 

 1678. Hiftorical Account of the Scottifti Parliament, by 

 George Redpath ; 8vo. 1703. Scotix Indiculum ; by Philo- 

 patris ; i8mo. 1682. Hiftorie of the Warres between 

 England and Scotland, from William the Conqueror to the 

 Union under James; 4to. Lond. 1607. TheAuldLawes 

 and Conftitutions of Scotland ; fol. 1609. The Laws and 

 Afts of Parliament of Scotland, from 1424 to 1707 ; 

 l2mo. 3 vols. 1682, 1707. Memoirs of North Britain ; 

 Svo. Lond. 17 15. Memoirs of Scotland during the Reign 

 of Queen Anne ; 8vo. 1714. 



Articles of the Union with Scotland; 4to. 1707. In- 

 quiry into the Evidence againft Mary Queen of Scots ; 

 Svo. Edin. 1772. Inquiry into the Reign of Queen Elifa- 

 beth, in reference to Queen Mary ; 8vo. 1726. Biographia 

 Scoticana ; Svo. 1796. Gordon'.s Theatre of Scottilh 

 Kings; 4to. 1709. Fragments of Scottifti Hiftory ; 4to. 

 1798. Jamiefon's Hiftory of the Culdees of Jona ; 4to. 

 18 u. Pinkerton's Inquiry into the Hiftory of Scotland 

 before the Year 1056; 2 vols. 8vo. 1794. Pinkerton's 

 Hiftory of Scotland from the Acceflion of the Stewarts to 

 the Death of James V. ; 2 vols. 4to. 1812. Pinkerton's 

 Modern Geography, vol. i. 410. 1B07 — 181 1. General 

 Report of Scotland ; by fir Joim Sinclair ; 5 vols. Svo. and 

 vol. plates, 1813. Sinclair's Huftiandry of Scotland; 

 2 vols. Svo. 1814. Dalrymple's Annals of Scotland, from 

 Malcolm III. to Houfe of Stewart ; 410. 2 vols. 1776. 

 Dalrymple's Trafts relative to the Hiilory of Scotland ; 

 4to. 1800. Culloden Papers ; 1815. Smith's Gaelic An- 

 tiquities ; 4to. Roy's Military Antiquities ; fol. Gu- 

 thrie's General Hiilory of Scotland; 10 vols. Svo. 1767. 

 Chalmers's Caledonia ; 2 vols. 4to. 1807 — 10. Hume's 

 Hiftoryof England, &c. Slezer's Tlieatrum Scotix, edited 

 by John Jamicfon, D.D. fol. 1814. 



ScoTi,.\ND Nccl-, a town or rather village of America, in 

 Halifax county, North Carolina, in wrhich is a poft-office ; 

 250 miles S. of Walhnigton. 



Scotland, AVw. See Nova Sjotia. 



Scotland River, a river, or rather rivulet, in the ifland 

 of Barbadoes, which rifes in St. Andrew's paridi, and falls 

 into Long bay, on the E. fide of tlie idand, 4 miles S.S.E. 

 of Cuckold's point, or 2^. miles N.W. of St. Joffph'« river, 

 the only other fmall broolc of the ifland. 



SCOTODINOS, a term uled by medical writers to ex 

 prefs a vertigo, or dizzinefs of the head, attended with .t 

 dimnefs of figlit. 



SCOTOMIA, or Scotoma, a giddinefs, or temporarv 

 confufion of fight ; nearly fynonimous with vcrligo ; which 

 fee. 



SCOTS, in Geography, the name of one of the two great 



tribes, 



