Transcriber’s Notes.
Footnotes have been numbered in one continuous sequence.
Differences in hyphenation of specific words and missing punctuation have beenrectified where applicable.
The advertisments from the front of the book have been placedat the end.
THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS
OF SCOTLAND
INVERNESS
THE HIGHLANDS AND
ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND
PAINTED BY W · SMITH
JUNR. · DESCRIBED BY
A · R · HOPE MONCRIEFF
PUBLISHED BY A · & C ·
BLACK·LONDON·MCMVII
Published April 1906
Reprinted with slight corrections, July 1907
Preface
In Bonnie Scotland was promised a further volume that should bedevoted to the sterner and wilder aspects of Caledonia. That book dealtwith the main body of Highlands and Lowlands, more familiar to thegentle tourist for whose patronage it was a candidate. This one, whosetitle might have been qualified as West Highlands, deals with theless visited side that is still Highland indeed, both in ruder naturalfeatures and in a life holding out longer against the trimming andtaming of Sassenach intromissions. The author, as before, has tried toweave a pattern of entertaining stripes and checks upon a groundwork ofinformation, all making a darker-hued tartan than is worn in the centreof Bonnie Scotland. Another metaphor would put it that he has prepareda brisk, perhaps frothy, but, it is hoped, not unpalatable, brew of“heather ale,” which contains in solution more solid ingredients thanmay be manifest to every reader.