Arborealis

[ arbor : tree ] + [ borealis : northern ]

Causton of London

Origin

Printers on London Bridge, in the early days of that bridge. All of the men and their sons, and their sons’ sons, etc., were made Freemen of the City of London, as master printers.

Location map of Scotland. Derivative work by Eric Gaba, NordNordWest. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Online at Wikimedia Commons (accessed 1st Oct. 2023). Adapted by Alison Kilpatrick, 2023. Readers are encouraged to visit both links to learn the rights and restrictions attached to this image.

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National Records of Scotland

Old Scottish Genealogy & Family History

Scotland GENUKI

Scottish Indexes

Scotland’s People

Gazetteer of Scotland

General Description [1803]: — Scotland, or that part of the island of Great Britain, which lies to the N. of the river Tweed, is bounded on all sides by the sea, except on the S.E., where it is joined to England. The Orkney and Shetland Isles, and the northern coast of the mainland of Scotland, oppose themselves to the waves of the great North Sea; the eastern shores are bounded by the German ocean; the islands and rugged cliffs, on its western coast, repel the waves of the great Atlantic Ocean; and the southern shores are washed by the waves of the Irish Sea, and the Solway Frith [sic]. Scotland extends about 280 miles in length, from the Mull of Galloway to Cape Wrath; and, at the greatest breadth, from the Point or Ru of Ardnamurchan to Buchanness, 180 miles; but the land is so indented by arms of the ssea, that the breadth is exceedingly various, and no part is distant above 40 miles from the coast. Scotland lies in 54° N. latitude; but the islands pertaining to it lie much further N.; the extreme island of Shetland being in 61° 12′ N.; nearly the same latitude as Bergen in Norway. — Source: The Gazetteer of Scotland. Dundee: printed by E. Ray, for W. Chalmers, Castle-street, 1803. Transcript by Alison Kilpatrick, 1st Oct. 2023.

The Scottish Harvest

An interesting feature of our Scottish harvest is the annual migration and return of the Highlanders, and latterly of the poor Irish, who, at this season, pour out upon the Lothians like locusts. Fewer have appeared this year than usual, from alarm of cholera.

The Highlander’s Reaper’s Song.
Such have I heard in Scottish land,
Rise from the busy harvest-band,
When falls before the mountaineer,
On Lowland plains, the ripened ear.
Now one shrill voice the notes prolong,
Now a wild chorus swells the song.
Oft have I listened and stood still,
As it came softened up the hill,
And deemed it the lament of men
Who languished for their native glen;
And thought how sad would be the sound
On Susquehana’s swampy ground,
Kentucky’s wood-encumbered brake,
On wild Ontario’s boundless lake,
When heart-sick exiles, in the strain
Recalled fair Scotland’s hills again.
… by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

Source: The Schoolmaster and Edinburgh Weekly. Published at Edinburgh, 1st Sept. 1823, pg. 23. Transcript by Alison Kilpatrick, 1st Oct. 2023.

Scottish enlightenment

A short list of key figures of the Scottish enlightenment during the 18th century:

David Allan (1744–1796), painter and illustrator
John Armstrong (1709–1799), physician, poet, and satirist
John Arbuthnot (1667–1735), physician, satirist, and polymath
John Bell of Antermony (1691–1780), doctor and traveller
Thomas Blackwell (1701–1757), classical scholar and historian
John Broadwood (1732–1812), piano manufacturer
Robert Burns (1759–1796), poet
John Cleland (1709–1789), writer, author of Fanny Hill
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653–1716), writer, patriot
James Gillray (1756–1815), caricaturist and printmaker
Francis Home (1719–1813), physician, Professor of Materia Medica at Edinburgh
Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1732–1781), composer and virtuoso violinist
David Mallet [Malloch] (c.1705–1765), writer
Alexander Monro I (1697–1767), physician, founder of Edinburgh Medical School
James Oswald (1710–1769), composer, cellist, and music publisher
Archibald Pitcairne (1652–1713), physician and bibliophile
John Rutherford (1695–1779), physician
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771), writer
James Tassie (1735–1799), gem engraver and modeller (painted by David Allan)
James Thomson (1700–1748), poet, author
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (1747–1813), advocate, judge, writer, and historian
John Walker (1731–1803), minister and natural historian

Arborealis

Causton of London

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