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SCOTLAND, or NORTH BRITAIN, the northern division of the Island of Great Britain, is situated between 54º 38' north latitude, and between 1º 47' and 6º 7' west longitude of Greenwich : according to other calculations the north latitude is 54º 37'. This does not include the Orkney, Shetland, and many of the Western Islands. The kingdom is surrounded on all sides by the sea, respectively known as the German Ocean, the Northern Sea and Pentland Frith, the Atlantic, and the North Channel; except on the south, where the Tweed and other streams partly form the boundary with England, and partly by a line supposed to be drawn along the Cheviots and other mountains in that direction. This line extends from the debouch of the Tweed on the north-east, to the Solway Frith on the south-west.

Transcribed from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of Scotland, 1841

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