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By Roger Dendinger

A glance on the geographic, political, financial, and social features of Scotland, a rustic with historic traditions that still performs an enormous position within the financial system of present-day Europe.

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Q 3/27/02 9:22 AM Page 54 54 Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland Group Chief Executive, Sir George Mathewson, poses in front of the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, launching the new Scottish one-pound note. forestry. The UK Parliament retains control over the “reserved matters”: foreign policy, defense, national security, fiscal, economic and monetary policies, energy, and social security. Scottish citizens now vote for representatives to the Scottish Parliament and representatives to the UK Parliament.

George’s Channel to Eire, the emerald isle of the Irish, and track the western margin. Jump the water again to include the peninsula of Brittany on the northwest coast of France. You have traced the western outline of a map of Celtic survival. The eastern edge of this region would extend only a few miles inland from the coast. This sparsely populated fringe of rugged land at Europe’s Atlantic margin is an example of an environmental refuge. q 3/27/02 9:20 AM Page 40 40 Scotland control of whatever dominant cultural group controlled the interior portions of Britain and the European mainland.

Since much Scottish trade at this time was with colonies in North America, the national economy slowed drastically. Scotland responded by attempting its own colony in the New World—the Darien expedition of 1696—but this failed quickly and nearly drove the government into bankruptcy. Scottish landowners and investors believed that uniting with their southern rival was the only way out of their economic dilemma. q 3/27/02 9:19 AM Page 33 Scotland Through Time The Act of Union dissolved the Scottish parliament and brought Scotland firmly under the political control of England.

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