comprehends the districts of Mar, Garioch, Strathbogie, and the greater part of Buchan; and sends one member to Parliament. It is washed on the east and north by the ocean; and abounds in sea-ports, from whence there is a safe and ready passage to the Orkneys and Shetland Isles, the Greenland fisheries, Norway, and the regions round the Baltic, the German coast, Holland, Flanders, France. It is watered by numerous streams, all of them the resort of salmon, and whose banks display the most extensive plantations as well as natural woods in Britain.