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contain large logs of wood ; and their waters being impregnated with, 

 turpentine, have an antiseptic quality. The Syiva Caledonia, or Cale- 

 donian forest, is supposed to have been Ettrick Forest, by which 

 name the whole county of Selkirk was formerly called. Several 

 parts of Scotland are still denominated forests ; as Abernethy Forest 

 in Aberdeenshire ; Parff Forest, Reay Forest ; and Broachiltive Forest 

 in Argyieshire. Fir-trees grow in great perfection almost all over 

 Scotland, and form beautiful plantations. The Scotch oak is excel- 

 lent in the Highlands, where some woods reach 20 or 30 miles in 

 length, and four or hve in breadth. 



Lake;... .The lakes of Scotland (there called Lochs) are too many 

 to be particularly described. Those called Loch-Tay, Loch-Lomond, 

 Loch-Ness, Loch-Au, and one or two more, present us with such 

 picturesque scenes as are scarcely equalled in any other country of 

 Europe. Several of these lakes are beautifully fringed with woods, 

 and contain great quantities of fresh water fish. The Scotch some- 

 times give the name of a loch to an arm of the sea ; for example, 

 Loch-Fyn, which is 60 miles long, and four broad, and is famous for 

 its excellent herrings. The loch of Spinie, near Elgin, is remarka- 

 ble for swans and sygnets, which are there extremely numerous ; 

 owing, as some think, to the plant olorina, which grows in its waters. 

 Near Loch-Ness is a high hill, on the top of which is a lake of cold 

 fresh water about 50 fathoms in length, so deep that it has not yet 

 bei,n fathomed; and which never freezes ; whi r e as, but 17 miles from 

 thence, the lake Lochanwyn, or Green Lake-, is covered with ice all 

 the year round. The ancient province of Lochaber receives that 

 name from being the mouth of the lochs. The coasts of Scotland are 

 in many parts indented with large, bold, navigable bays or arms of the 

 sea, as the bay of Glenluce and Wigtown bay ; sometimes they are 

 called Firths, as the Sohvay Firth, which separates Scotland from 

 England on the west ; the Firth of Forth, Murray Firth, and those of 

 Cromartie and Dornoch. 



Rivers. ...The largest river in Scotland is the Forth, which rises in 

 Momeith, near Callendar, and passing by Stirling, after a number of 

 beautiful meanders, discharges itself near Edinburgh into that arm 

 ot the German Sea to which it gives the name of F;rth of Forth. 

 Second to the Forth is the Tay, which issues out of Loch-Tay, in 

 Broadalbin, and, running south-east, passes the town of Perth, and 

 falls into the sea at Dundee. The Spey, which is called the most 

 rapid river in Scotland, issues from a lake of the same name in Bade- 

 noch, and, running from south-west to north-east, falls into the sea 

 near Elgin ; as do the rivers Dee and Don, which run from west to 

 east, and disembogue themselves at Aberdeen. The Tweed rises on 

 the borders of Lanarkshire, and, after many serpentine turnings, dis- 

 charges itself into the sea at Berwick, where it serves as a boundary 

 between Scotland and England, on the eastern side. The Clyde is a 

 large liver on the west of Scotland, has its rise in Annandale, runs 

 north-west through the valley of that name, and, after passing by Lan- 

 ark, Hamilton, the city of Glasgow, Renfrew, Dumbarton, and Green- 

 ock, falls into the Firth of Clyde, opposite to the Isle of Bute. Be- 

 sides these principal rivers, Scotland contains many of an inferior size, 

 well provided with salmon, trout, and other fish, which equally enrich 

 and beautify the country. Several of those rivers have the name oi 

 Esk, which is an old Celtic word for water. 



