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CALEDONIA, prop.n. [Roman name for part of what is now Scotland.] Literary name for Scotland.Sc. 1706 Lord Belhaven Belhaven's Vision: Or His Speech in the High Parliament. Nov. 2nd 3:
But above all, My Lord, I think I see our ancient Mother CALEDONIA, like Cæsar sitting in the midst of our Senate, Rufully looking round about her, Covering Herself with her Royal garment, attending the Fatal Blow, and breathing out Her Last with a Et tu quoque, mi Fili, Squadrone. Sc. 1785 James Boswell Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1936) 11:
On Saturday the fourteenth of August, 1773, late in the evening, I received a note from him [Johnson] that he was arrived at Boyd's Inn, at the head of the Canongate. I went to him directly. He embraced me cordially, and I exulted in the fact that I now had him actually in Caledonia.m.Sc. 1983 Tom Scott in Joy Hendry Chapman 37 62:
Methinks I hear in my mind's ear our ancient mother Caledonia, meet nurse, counsel me in the tones of that Glesca mother ...