Selkirkshire, a south inland county of Scotland; extends S. from the corner of Midlothian to Dumfriesshire, between Peebles (W.) and Roxburgh (E.); the grassy slopes of its hills afford splendid pasturage, and sheep-farming is a flourishing industry; manufactures are mainly confined to Galashiels and Selkirk; is traversed by the Ettrick and the Yarrow, whose romantic valleys are associated with much of the finest ballad literature of Scotland.
Population (circa 1900) given as 27,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Selkirk * Selwyn, George