Dumbartonshire (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Dumbartonshire Scotland is divided by geographers into three natural regions: the Highlands, the Central Lowlands, and the Southern Uplands - districts differing fundamentally in relief, in the nature of the rocks, in scenery, in vegetation, in industries, and in their inhabitants. These divisions are formed by two lines that run right across the country from north east to south west. One line runs from Stonehaven to Helensburgh, and separates the Highlands from the Lowlands; the other runs from St Abbs Head to Girvan, and divides the Lowlands from the Southern Uplands. These lines mark the course of two great faults or cracks, between which the rocks of the Lowlands have gradually sunk, leaving high hill-masses to the north - west and the south - east. Thus when we talk of crossing the Highland line, speech. By walking only a few yards we can step from the Lowlands to the Highlands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.