Scotland and the Scotch: Or the Western Circuit, Dedicated to the Highland Society (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Scotland and the Scotch: Or the Western Circuit, Dedicated to the Highland SocietyAn excursion in Scotland wants the novelty and adventure of savage life neither can it boast of anything to com pare with the gorgeous paraphernalia of a continental tour. The traveller must here dispense with carnivals, operas, cath edrals, restaurateurs, brigands, improvisa tori, arch-dukes, and ex - kings, nor can he fall into raptures about the Venus de Medici, or the climate, but to compensate for these lamentable deficiencies, we have in the Highlands old traditions, second sight, bagpipes, witchcraft, clans, tartan, whiskey, heather, muirvfowl, red deer, and J acobites!Should a single travelling carriage ai~ ter its course this year from Calais to the north, and trace out any part of this tour as it is described, with half the pleasure such an excursion is capable of exciting, the highest ambition of this volume would be attained, and the in formation afforded along the road will at least be found ao curate. The author's chief perplexity has arisen from being too intimately ac quainted with the country, as she finds great difficulty in compressing this work within portable compass, and she has also been deeply solicitous, not in a single in stance to infringe the sacred privacy of society, nor the confidence of domestic life, therefore her pages resemble the catalogue of a picture exhibition - where landscapes only appear, they are describ ed at full length, and historical scenes are drawn without disguise, but when an in dividual is accidentally introduced, he al ways preserves a strict incognito, being mentioned as the Portrait of a gentle man, or Likeness of an officer in uniform, or Sketch of a'chieftain in High land costume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.