exclusive of the islands, is situated between 50° and 60° 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 Caithness choose only alternately, or every other parliament, in their turns; as do those of Cromarty and Nairn, Clackmannan and Kinros.

The royal boroughs of Scotland are sixty-five, but so classified as to send only fifteen burgesses to parliament.

New Scotland, Nova Scotia, one of the British colonies in North America, is situated between 62° and 72° W. long, and between 43° and 51° N. lat. being bounded by the river of St Laurence on the north and north-west; by the bay of St Laurence, and the Atlantic Ocean, on the east; by the same ocean, and New-England, on the south; and by Canada, on the west.