Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New and Comprehensive System of Modern Geography, Mathematical, Physical, Political and Commercial, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising a Perspicuous Delineation of the Present State of the Globe, With Its Inhabitants and Productions; Preceded by the History of the Science; Interspersed With Statistical and Synoptical Tables; Containing the Introduction and Europe Dee; they were augmented by the arrival of anglo-normans from the south they admitted settlements of kindred Flemings every where within North Britain, and, with the augmentation of their numbers, acquiring the ascendency with the government, they dictated their language, their laws, and their manners, within every district of proper Scotland. 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.