Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1785, Robert Burn's poem The Cotter's Saturday Night described Scotland like this:

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil
Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Scotland by doing a full-text search here.

Travel writing

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