1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 50 This Bison is called Taurus Paeonicus, the Paeonian-Bull, whereof I find two kinds, one of greater, and another of lesser size, called the Scotian or calydonian Bison.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. ix. 170/2 He beareth Vert, a Scotian Bisons head erazed.

1732 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions II. 37 Methinks, I see the Scotian Race unborn, By me inspir'd, their native Land adorn!

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1956) II. 182 To Fife we steer, of all beneath the sun The most unhallow'd 'midst the Scotian plains!

1803 J. Leyden Scenes of Infancy i. 232 But long Their fame shall flourish in the Scotian song.

1899 Libr. World Mar. 167 The older parts of Carlisle all possess this air of rubicund old age, well preserved, and no doubt well washed, by frequent downpours from the adjoining Cumbrian and Scotian mountains.

1910 J. Crawford Whar' Hand O' God is Seen 141 Fill up your glasses and toast your braw cronies, Drink health to your Spence and the auld Scotian Baird.

1996 D. McDonald Lord Strathcona i. 13 The play says Duncan was murdered at Macbeth's castle in nearby Inverness but many historians would argue that he was slain at home in Forres like other Scotian kings before him.

1884 E. B. Chase Over Border 168 Another drive of many miles along the shore brings us to the neighborhood of the very jumping-off place of the Scotian peninsula.

1896 Observer Mag. June 457 No doubt to some whose lot is cast in brighter climes this portion of the Scotian province would seem dreary and somber.

1936 Science 10 Apr. 350/1 The Biological Board of Canada has been concerned with an investigation of the waters of the Scotian shelf for the past few years.

1978 Palynology 2 234 A series of deltaic complexes along the North American margin, one of the largest of which is in the Scotian Basin.

1996 J. T. Andrews Late Quaternary Palaeoceanogr. N. Atlantic Margins 103/1 The Scotian Shelf is an important geographical area for studying post-glacial environmental changes along the margins of the North Atlantic Ocean.

2006 L. J. Prelli Rhetorics of Display iv. 96 The banks are revealed in size and number against the pale shelf backdrop on the Scotian side of the Gulf of Maine—right off Nova Scotia.