Selkirkshire
a county of southeast Scotland. Area, 267 square miles. Pop. about 25,000. Almost its entire area is occupied by two parallel valleys of the rivers Ettrick and Yarrow. The county is mountainous. The various mountains, the highest of which is Dun Rig (2,433 feet), have round, instead of peaked tops, and the mountain sides are covered with a high quality grass, providing excellent pasturage. Formerly there were extensive woods, which, however, have now disappeared. Capital, Selkirk, with a population (1918) of 5,946.