When King Alexander II ascended to the throne, a rebellion broke out in Moray and western Ross-shire, whose Celtic population were opposed to the laws and customs of the south.

A survey in the Moray Firth in Scotland, the world's second northernmost dolphin population, recorded an average adult length of just under compared with a average in a population off the coast of Florida.

Males in Burghead make up 53. 6 % of the population ; this is higher than the figure of 49. 97 % for Moray which itself is slightly higher than the 48. 05 % for Scotland.

The town is the third largest in the Moray Council area after Elgin and Forres and within the definitions of statistics published by the General Register Office for Scotland was ranked at number 75 in the list of population estimates for settlements in Scotland mid-year 2006.

Almost the entire Svalbard population of Barnacle Goose overwinters in the Solway Firth area, with many of the birds often at Caerlaverock for part or all of the winter ; their protection by the reserve has enabled the population to recover from just 500 birds in the 1940s, to over 25, 000 now.

The cultural and geographical distinction between the firth and the River Clyde is vague, and people will sometimes refer to Dumbarton as being on the Firth of Clyde, while the population of Port Glasgow and Greenock frequently refer to the firth to their north as " the river ".

Formerly a village and harbour on the Firth of Forth, it had a population of approximately 5, 000 inhabitants at the 1991 census.

Lamlash () is the largest village by population on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.

It is the largest community on the stretch of north-shore coastline of the Firth of Forth known as the East Neuk, with a population of about 3, 500 people.

Raymond Firth speculates about the ways population control may have been achieved, including celibacy, warfare ( including expulsion ), infanticide and sea-voyaging ( which claimed many youths ).

Cardross ( Càrdainn Ros in Gaelic ) is a large village with a population of 2, 351 ( 2001 ) in Scotland, on the north side of the Firth of Clyde, situated halfway between Dumbarton and Helensburgh.

He made use of his Scottish experience to write his Tour thro ' the whole Island of Great Britain, published in 1726, where he admitted that the increase of trade and population in Scotland which he had predicted as a consequence of the Union, was " not the case, but rather the contrary ".

Scotland lost about 15 % of its population from deaths, outmigration, and lowered birth rates.

Scotland was a poor rural, agricultural society with a population of 1. 3 million in 1755.

England had about five times the population of Scotland at the time, and about 36 times as much wealth.

However, Scotland in 1750 was still a poor rural, agricultural society with a population of 1. 3 million.

The population of Scotland grew steadily in the 19th century, from 1, 608, 000 in the census of 1801 to 2, 889, 000 in 1851 and 4, 472, 000 in 1901.

Scotland lost a much higher proportion of its population than England and Wales, reaching perhaps as much as 30. 2 per cent of its natural increase from the 1850s onwards.

With a population of 4. 8 million in 1911, Scotland sent 690, 000 men to the war, of whom 74, 000 died in combat or from disease, and 150, 000 were seriously wounded.

While emigration began to tail off in England and Wales after the First World War, it continued apace in Scotland, with 400, 000 Scots, ten per cent of the population, estimated to have left the country between 1921 and 1931.

In the 2001 census 42. 4 per cent of the population identified with the Church of Scotland, 15. 9 per cent with Catholicism and 6. 8 with other forms of Christianity, making up roughly 65 per cent of the population ( compared with 72 per cent for the UK as a whole ).

Losses in population were partly compensated by migration of Protestant settlers or refugees from Scotland, Salzburg ( expulsion of Protestants 1731 ), France ( Huguenot refugees after the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685 ), and especially from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, including Polish brethren expelled from Poland in 1657.

In Scotland, Inchconnachan, an island in Loch Lomond has a population of wallabies as well.

Buchan had a very large population because it was the agricultural capital of northern Scotland and much of its population was loyal to the Clan Comyn even after the defeat of the Earl of Buchan.

After the islands were transferred to Scotland, thousands of Scots families emigrated to Shetland in the 16th and 17th centuries but studies of the genetic makeup of the islands ' population indicate that Shetlanders are just under half Scandinavian in origin.

The population of Scotland was 2. 6 million.

There was no catastrophic epidemic or famine in England or Scotland in the 19th century – it was the first century in which a major epidemic did not occur throughout the whole country, with deaths per 1000 of population per year in England and Wales dropping from 21. 9 from 1848 – 54 to 17 in 1901 ( contrasting with, for instance, 5. 4 in 1971 ).

He is informally known by sections of the population in Northern Ireland and Scotland as " King Billy ".

In terms of population, it is the smallest council area in mainland Scotland, with a population of 48, 630 ( in 2005 ), around half of whom live in the main town, Alloa, which is the administrative centre, having outgrown the town of Clackmannan in 1822.

The city is reputed to be the third fastest growing area of Scotland in terms of population.

Arbroath or Aberbrothock ( ) is a former royal burgh and the largest town in the council area of Angus in Scotland, and has a population of 22, 785.

The 2010 " Doctor Who " episode, " The Beast Below ", centers on a generation ship known as " Starship UK ", which contains the entire future population of the United Kingdom ( except for Scotland, which opted for its own ship ) fleeing the deadly solar flares on the Earth in the 29th century.

* The island of Inchconnachan in Loch Lomond, Scotland, has a population of around 28 red-necked wallabies introduced by Lady Colquhoun in the 1920s.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

`` It's a whole lot easier '', he said, `` to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the population of New York city ''.

It has already been reported in your newspapers that the East Greenwich School Committee is considering additions to at least one elementary school and to the high school to insure future accommodations for a school population that we know will increase.

The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn.

If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.

The number of countries thus favorably situated is small, but their peoples constitute over half of the population of the underdeveloped world.

Mr. Speaker, for several years now the commuter railroads serving our large metropolitan areas have found it increasingly difficult to render the kind of service our expanding population wants and is entitled to have.

The basic market for textiles is growing with the expansion of the population that began 20 years ago.

It would seem necessary that members of this population provide support for one another since it is not provided by the larger society.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

It is hypothesized that fertility is a function of the social system when the population as a whole is considered and a function of the subsystems when the two-fold division of core families and marginal families is considered.

To maintain their intermediate position in the larger society, it is not only necessary that members of this population be `` visible '', but that their numbers be great enough to be recognized as a separate, distinct grouping or system in society.

Intense interaction is easier where segregated living and occupational segregation mark off a group from the rest of the community, as in the case of this population.

Although the Brandywine population is still predominantly rural, `` there are indications of a consistent and a statistically significant trend away from the older and relatively isolated rural communities.

There is an oral tradition among the members of the population in regard to the origin and subsequent separate status of the group in the larger society.

but the subsequent analysis of characteristics is reported only for the de jure population ( or, in some districts, only the de facto population ).

It is still used in making current population estimates in post-census years, though the value of these estimates is open to question.

That reference in the Report is `` continuation of the trend toward an all-Negro school system '', a remark apparently occasioned by the increase of Negro school population from 74.1 per cent to 76.7 per cent.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.