Outer Hebrides, islands in Scotland, off the northwestern coast of the Scottish mainland. They constitute the Western Isles council area. Lewis, the northern part of the island of Lewis and Harris, lies in the historic county of Ross-shire in the historic region of Ross and Cromarty, while ...
and the Lauderdale. The valley of the Tweed broadens in the east to form a fertile agricultural plain known as the Merse. Scottish Borderscomprisesthe historic counties ofBerwickshire,Peeblesshire,Roxburghshire, andSelkirkshireand the southern fringes of the historic counties ofEast LothianandMidlothian...