A treatise on the language, poetry, and music of the Highland clans : with illustrative traditions and anecdotes, and numerous ancient Highland airs . EDINBURG]! :D. E. COLLIE & SON, 19 ST DAVID STREET. 1862. MY:-;; PREFACE. The religious and civil institutions, and the state of society among thepatriarchal or Highland Clans, have been so misunderstood and misrepresented,as to have made on the English-speaking public the impression that theseClans were in a state of lawless barbarity at the dawn of authentic history, andcontinued in that condition until a period within the memory of men still
A treatise on the language, poetry, and music of the Highland clans : with illustrative traditions and anecdotes, and numerous ancient Highland airs . EDINBURG]! :D. E. COLLIE & SON, 19 ST DAVID STREET. 1862. MY:-;; PREFACE. The religious and civil institutions, and the state of society among thepatriarchal or Highland Clans, have been so misunderstood and misrepresented,as to have made on the English-speaking public the impression that theseClans were in a state of lawless barbarity at the dawn of authentic history, andcontinued in that condition until a period within the memory of men still untoward circumstances, chiefly resulting from the translation ofOssians poems, have occm-red to confirm this impression. One learned andtalented Enghshmen, with a direct reference to these poems, contended that suchideas and feelings could not be expressed in the rude gibberish of a barbarouspeople; and several English-speaking Lowlanders and Highlanders, takingup this view of the subject, and having the same conviction as to the rudeuncultivated character of the language, maintained that the Highland Clanshad no poetry, andtreatiseonlangua00camp
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