Excerpt from Caledonia, or a Historical and Topographical Account of North Britain From the Most Ancient to the Present Times, Vol. 2: With a Dictionary of Places, Chorographical and Philological Land was laid out into tithings, hundreds, and Shires; but Scotland has been never divided into tithings, nor hundreds, and was not placed under the regimen of Sheriffs till the commencement of the twelfth century. Those comparative intimations would prove, if they were not the demonstrations of facts, that the people who acted upon such dissimilar principles must necessarily have been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.