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THE range of hills, which in Scotland extends from the German Ocean to the Irish Sea, having a N.E. and S.W. direction, has been aptly designated the Southern Uplands. This range is nearly parallel in its course to that of the Highlands proper. It exhibits hills, some of which attain to an elevation approaching nearly 3,000 feet; but its physical features, although marked in many localities with scenes of great beauty, are devoid of the stern and rugged grandeur which characterises the more northerly mountains of Scotland. The hills of this range usually consist of rounded and grass-covered undulations, or loag tracts of plateaux. They have been specially named the “pastoral district of Scotland,” and their scenes have furnished subjects for many a pastoral song, and many a border ballad.
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The Southern Uplands of Scotland * . Nature 9, 22–24 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/009022a0
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