The Republic of Scotland

called the Wall. To the west, indeed, it rises, lifted into a high summit of a most precipitous crag, except where it looks toward the city, upon which a castle is placed, so strong with frequent towers that it is considered an impregnable fortification; which the Britons called Castle Myned Agned, the Scots the Castle of Maidens and the Castle of Virgins, from the royal maidens of the Picts kept there in olden times. At the first milestone from here is Leith, a most convenient port; which, when the Frenchman Dessé had fortified with works for the security of Edinburgh, as many people flocked there from a low-born village, it soon grew into a town.

Lying more to the west is Clydesdale, embracing either bank of the river Clyde, which, on account of its length, is divided into two prefectures. In the upper prefecture is a hill, not very high, from which rivers pour out into three different seas: the Tweed into the Scottish Sea, the Annan into the Irish, and the Clyde into the Deucaledonian. In it are the more notable cities, Lanark and Glasgow.

Coila touches this from the winter west.

Beyond Coila is Galloway. It is separated from Nithsdale by the river Clyde, the whole region almost turning toward the south, and by its shore, that remaining side of Scotland is covered.