Netherlorn Argyllshire And Its Neighbourhood Scholars Choice Edition PDF Download

Excerpt from Netherlorn: Argyllshire and Its Neighbourhood The district illustrated and described in the following pages is, like many other interesting by-ways in the Highlands, still comparatively unknown. Of its scenes and legends little has been written, and what has been is to be found in scattered fragments through a multitude of books. In the preparation of this volume, the information contained in the works hereafter mentioned has been freely made use of. The accounts given in Fordun's Chronicle (A.D. 1380), Dean Monro's Description of the Western Isles (1549), Martin's Description of the Western Islands (written about 1695), Pennant's Tour in Scotland (1772), and MacCulloch's Western Isles (circ. 1819), form a consecutive series of description and observation from the fourteenth century downwards. The earlier spelling of place-names was phonetic, and it is surprising how little, in many hundred years, the pronunciation of those Gaelic words has changed. Many islands mentioned in Monro's book, however, cannot now be identified; and even in MacCulloch's Description, written just ninety years ago, there are two islands, called by him Garveloch-na-skian and Garveloch-na-more, which are not now known by these names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.