THE QUEEN'S HOTEL. G. SHERIFF, JUN., PROPRIETOR. THIS long established and favourite first class Hotel, in George Square, the most central and agreeable situation in Glasgow, offers to tourists every comfort at fixed and reasonable rates. The Hotel is under the personal supervision of the Proprietor, who spares no pains to merit the continuance of the patronage so liberally bestowed for many years by American and other travellers. The Hotel adjoins the North British Station and is within five minutes of the other stations. 14. GLASGOW TO CARLISLE 57 27. EDINBURGH TO OBAN BY 15. GLASGOW TO CARLISLE BY DUMFRIES 59 28. EDINBURGH TO DUNDEE 16. GLASGOW TO AYR AND 17. GLASGOW WAY ΤΟ STORNO 99 105 106 108 110 11 30. PERTH TO ABERDEEN. 66 31. EDINBURGH TO DUNDEE BY TAY BRIDGE 18. PORTREE TO LOCHMADDY 67 19. PORTREE TO STORNOWAY 69 32. EDINBURGH TO MELROSE, 20. GLASGOW TO EDINBURGH 71 ABBOTSFORD, AND DRY 33. EDINBURGH TO BERWICKON-TWEED 90 34. EDINBURGH TO CARLISLE 94 96 114 117 COTLAND, one of the component parts of Great Britain, occupies the northern, the smaller, and less fertile portion of that island. It is washed on the west and north by the Atlantic, and on the east by the German Ocean; and on the south is bounded by England, the Solway Firth, and part of the Irish Sea. Its coast-line presents the most fantastic irregularities: here jutting into the ocean in high narrow peninsulas, there receding far inland in lake-like gulfs, and again suddenly starting seaward, and breaking into a number of bold rocky headlands. Its greatest length, from the Mull of Galloway on the south, to Dunnet Head on the north, is about 280 miles; its breadth is variable, being about 146 miles between Buchan Ness, in Aberdeenshire, and the extreme point of Rossshire on the west. It contains about 29,500 square miles of land, and its fresh water covers an area of nearly 560 square miles. The population of Scotland by the last census (1871) was 3,360,018. The increase from 1861 to 1871 was six per cent. The surface of the country is varied and unequal. In that portion of it usually termed the Lowlands, the hills are of moderate height; in the Highlands, or that division which is separated by the Grampians from the southerly parts, every variety of mountain scenery is to be found, much of which is inaccessible. The Grampian mountains extend from sea to sea, with a breadth of from 40 to 60 miles, and among them is the highest land in Great Britain. Ben Nevis, in Inverness-shire, is 4095 feet above the level of the sea. In the Lowland division, Heartfell in Dumfriesshire, and Lowthers in Lanarkshire, rise more than 3000 feet above the level of the sea. An elevation of 600 feet is considered in Scotland the limit of profitable tillage. The chief rivers of Scotland are the Forth, the Tweed, the Clyde, the Tay, and the Spey. The Tay is the largest of these rivers, and the Clyde, which is navigable for large ships as far up as Glasgow, is the next in size. The chief lakes of Scotland are Loch Lomond, Loch Awe, Loch Tay, Loch Katrine, Loch Earn, Loch Ness, and Loch Leven; the latter celebrated for its trout, and on account of the castle on one of its islands having been once the prison of Mary Queen of Scots. The climate is later than that of England. The mean temperature is from 45 to 47; the average annual rainfall is about 31 inches. Westerly winds prevail for about two-thirds of the year; and easterly gales, chiefly in spring and early summer, for about onethird. The part of Scotland chiefly cultivated, lies along the banks of the rivers and the sea-shore. Little more than one-fourth of the area of Scotland, or 5,000,000 acres, is cultivated regularly or occasionally, the remainder, say 14,000,000 acres, is adapted only to the pasturage of sheep. Scotland manufactures cotton and linen very largely, and her manufactures of iron are very extensive. More than two-thirds of the iron ships constructed in Great Britain are from the great ironworks upon the Clyde. |