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HIGHLANDS, THE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HIGHLANDS, THE , that See also:part of See also:Scotland See also:north-See also:west of a See also:line See also:drawn from See also:Dumbarton to See also:Stonehaven, including the Inner and See also:Outer See also:Hebrides and the See also:county of See also:Bute, but excluding the Orkneys and Shetlands, See also:Caithness, the See also:flat coastal See also:land of the shires of See also:Nairn, See also:Elgin and See also:Banff, and all See also:East See also:Aberdeenshire (see SCOTLAND). This See also:area is to be distinguished from the Lowlands by See also:language and See also:race, the preservation of the Gaelic speech being characteristic. Even in a See also:historical sense the. Highlanders were a See also:separate See also:people from the Lowlanders, with whom, during many centuries, they shared nothing in See also:common. The See also:town of See also:Inverness is usually regarded as the See also:capital of the Highlands. The Highlands consist of an old dissected See also:plateau, or See also:block, of See also:ancient crystalline rocks with incised valleys and lochs carved by the See also:action of See also:mountain streams and by See also:ice, the resulting See also:topography being a wide area of irregularly distributed mountains whose summits have nearly the same height above See also: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 " highland " is used in See also:physical See also:geography for any elevated mountainous plateau.

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