THE See also:

• THE HIGHLANDS

HIGHLANDS  , that See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of a See also:

• LINE

line See also:

• DRAWN

drawn from See also:

• DUMBARTON

Dumbarton to See also:

• STONEHAVEN (locally Stanehive)

Stonehaven, including the Inner and See also:

• OUTER

Outer See also:

• HEBRIDES, THE, or WESTERN ISLES

Hebrides and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of See also:

• BUTE
• BUTE, JOHN STUART, 3RD EARL OF (1713-1792)

Bute, but excluding the Orkneys and Shetlands, See also:

• CAITHNESS

Caithness, the See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat coastal See also:

• LAND

land of the shires of See also:

• NAIRN

Nairn, See also:

• ELGIN

Elgin and See also:

• BANFF

Banff, and all See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East See also:

• ABERDEENSHIRE

Aberdeenshire (see SCOTLAND) . This See also:

• AREA

area is to be distinguished from the Lowlands by See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and See also:

• RACE

race, the preservation of the Gaelic speech being characteristic . Even in a See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical sense the . Highlanders were a See also:

• SEPARATE

separate See also:

• PEOPLE

people from the Lowlanders, with whom, during many centuries, they shared nothing in See also:

• COMMON

common . The See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• INVERNESS

Inverness is usually regarded as the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• HIGHLANDS, THE

Highlands . The Highlands consist of an old dissected See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau, or See also:

• BLOCK
• BLOCK (from the Fr. bloc, and possibly connected with an Old Ger. Block, obstruction, cf. " baulk ")
• BLOCK, MAURICE (1816–19or)

block, of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient crystalline rocks with incised valleys and lochs carved by the See also:

• ACTION

action of See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain streams and by See also:

• ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice, the resulting See also:

• TOPOGRAPHY
• TOPOGRAPHY (Gr. Toros, place, -partied', to write)

topography being a wide area of irregularly distributed mountains whose summits have nearly the same height above See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea-level, but whose bases depend upon the amount of denudation to which the plateau has been subjected in various places . The See also:

• TERM

term " highland " is used in See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography for any elevated mountainous plateau .