One of the main Scottish ports for departure was "Greenock,"
which is near Glasgow. But many of the Scottish emigrants
departed from Liverpool, England also. There are ALWAYS boundary
changes in Scotland, at least that's the way it seems!
Boundaries are mostly based on old church parish boundaries,
which have remained fairly intact over the centuries. While
parishes as local organisational units have been dropped, the
boundaries have continued to be utilised for County boundaries,
District boundaries, Parliamentary constituency boundaries, and
so on. County boundaries have had oddities, such as detached
portions, whereby a small part of one county is stuck like an
island inside the area of another county! Most of these have
been sorted out during the last hundred years, but still cause
confusion for genealogists who don't know the details. Scotland
in divided into three parts. The Highlands, The Lowlands, and
the Southern Uplands. There are sub regions within these, and
the islands are usually considered in t