SCOTLAND, exclusive of the islands, is situated between 1° and 6° W. long. and between 54° 30' and 58° 30' N. lat. being about three hundred miles long from north to south and from fifty to one hundred and fifty miles broad, from east to west.
Since the union with England, Scotland is divided into thirty-three shires, or counties, which all together send only thirty knights to parliament, by reason the shires of
Bute and Cathnes chuse only alternately, or every other parliament, in their turns; as do those of Cromarty and Nairn, Clackmannan and Kinross.
The royal boroughs of Scotland are sixty-five, but so classed as to send only fifteen burgesses to parliament.