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was called East-Lothian, in order to distinguish it from Edinburghshire, or Mid-
Lothian, and from Linlithgowshire, as West-Lothian (k).
§ II. Of its Situation and Extent.]   The shire of Haddington lies between
55° 46'10" north latitude, and between 11' and 52' of longitude, east from
Edinburgh, or 2° 8' and 2° 49' west from London (l).     It has Edinburghshire
on the west, Berwickshire on the south, and the Firth of Forth, which is
supposed to commence at St. Abb's-head, on the north and east.     The rivulet
of Dunglas, for nearly two miles from its influx into the  Forth,  divides
Haddington from Berwickshire; and the stream of Ravensheugh, for about
half a mile from its confluence with the same firth, separates Haddington
from Edinburghshire.     The extreme length of Haddington from east to west
is about twenty-five miles.    [26˝]The mean length is rather above twenty-
three miles.    The breadth at the west end is twelve miles, in the middle six-
teen, and at the east end ten miles.     The mean breadth from north to south
may be regarded as sixteen miles (m).     [Greatest breadth about 19 miles.]
The measurements, from the more recent map, give a superficies of two hun-
dred and eighty square miles, or a hundred and seventy-nine thousand two
hundred [179,142] English acres , and since, the whole inhabitants of Had-
dingtonshire have been recently found to be twenty-nine thousand nine hun-
dred   and eighty-six  [1881 :   38,502],  this   population   amounts  to  rather
more than one hundred and seven [137˝]   individuals to  a square  mile.
Haddington contains  four and twenty parishes.     This   district has   been
several times surveyed.     During the troublous age of Charles I., it was
inspected with an accurate eye by Timothy Pont, who left a delineation of
Lothian which Blaeu soon after published (n).     The landholders of Hadding-
(k) At the epoch of Bagimont's Roll, it was already distinguished by the modern name of Eist-
Lothian. In a compositio between the canons of St. Andrews and the monks of Haddington, which
was made in the church of Lauder, during the year 1245, the chapter " Orientali Laodomiae," oriental
or Eastern Lothian, is spoken of as a known province in that age. Trans. Antiq. Soc. Edin., 119 ;
Roberts. Index, 9C-126.
(l) Armstrong's map, and Arrow-smith's map. The shire-town of Haddington lies in 55° 57' 50''
N. Latitude, and 2° 48' 40" Longitude W. of London.
(m) Arrowsmith's map.
(n) It is No. 9, facing p. 43, in his Atlas Scotić. There was a one sheet map of Haddingtonshire
by John Adair, which was engraved by R. Cooper. Haddingtonshire was included by the Armstrongs
in their six sheet map of the three Lothians, 177P, on a scale of one inch to a mile. A very fine map
of Haddingtonshire was published by W. Forrest in 1799, on a scale of two inches to a mile ; and
there is a very useful sketch of this county prefixed to Somerville's General View of the Agriculture
of East Lothian, 1805.