21 Aug, 2019
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Stirling Bridge
Antonine Wall placed too far south. It ran between the Rivers Forth and Clyde, not the Tweed and Clyde as shown here. The Forth is depicted further north on the map. The erroneous description reads, "Wall separating the Scots and Picts of old".
Galloway, orientated east-west rather than north-south.
Isle of Man
Anglesay
Orkney Islands, shown off the east coast of Scotland rather than the north coast.
Edinburgh
Snowdon
Dumbarton
Dundee
St. Andrews
Dunfermline
Dunkeld
The Hebrides shown as a continuous stretch of land separated from the mainland by a narrow strip of sea. The description states, "A country marshy and impassable, fit for cattle and shepherds".
River Clyde
Glasgow located on the River Clyde but too far eastwards
Berwick
Queensferry
Carlisle
The shape of land here bears a rough resemblance to Jura and Islay in relation to Galloway, though running east-west rather than north-south. The description states, "A maritime district and a race of mountain people".
"A mountainous and wooded region, producing a people rude and pastoral by reason of marshes and fens"
"Island of Columkille" (i.e. Columba, hence Iona)
"Island of Tyree"
"A boundless and trackless sea"
Isle of May, positioned off the wrong coast. The island is actually located off the east coast at the mouth of the Firth of Forth.
Arbroath, positioned on the wrong coast.
Aberdeen, positioned on the wrong coast.
Caithness
Sutherland
"An arm of the sea", presumably the Moray Firth.
North Wales
"River making Clydesdale"
Earlsferry, meaning "the earl's ferry" at North Berwick, not to be confused with Earlsferry on the Fife coast opposite. The ferry connected these two locations to assist pilgrims from the south journeying to St. Andrews.
Tweeddale
Hadrians Wall. Its western end is shown as starting on the River Solway inland from the Solway Firth. The erroneous description reads, "Wall separating the Angles and Picts of old".
Melrose
Roxburgh
Cheviot Hills
Lindisfarne
SCOTLAND BEYOND THE SEA
"This is also called Albany"
