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Encyclopedia Britannica



HIGHLANDS, THE

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 456 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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