TO THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND, INCLUDING ORKNEY AND ZETLAND: DESCRIPTIVE OF THEIR SCENERY, STATISTICS, ANTIQUITIES, AND BY GEORGE ANDERSON AND PETER ANDERSON, OF INVERNESS. NEW EDITION. EDINBURGH: WILLIAM TAIT, 107, PRINCE'S STREET. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE Authors of the following work take leave to state, that they have been in a great measure led to obtrude themselves on public attention by a sense of the inconvenience felt by Travellers from the want of such a Guide-book as this volume is designed to form; and from a belief that, as they have possessed unusual opportunities of acquiring an extensive acquaintance with the mountainous districts of their native land, they may with some confidence submit these pages to public notice. In the performance of the task they have imposed upon themselves, they venture to assure their readers that they have spared no trouble in procuring minute and accurate information. They have purposely and personally visited almost all the scenes described by them; and, not satisfied with their own or the observations of other writers, their manuscript has, in general, been revised by friends intimately acquainted with the various districts of which it treats. The scientific remarks, where not original, have been verified by the authors; and, for the most part, they will stand pledged for the accuracy of the numerous quotations they have ventured to make from other works. It is but proper to add, that this volume has been in gradual progress, during their leisure hours, for upwards of ten years. To the many friends who have promoted the topographical correctness of the work, but who kindly regard their A |