. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. P^inMRDWi. AUTHORS INTRODUCTION. [GOTLAND has been invariably described as a poverty-stricken field asregards architectural illustration; and the writer, when he commencedhis labours as a stranger to the country, of course shared in the generalopinion. But he was speedily undeceived, and at once extended hislabours very considerably beyond his original intentions. In spite ofthese additions, however, the results of his travels so multiplied the subjectsfor delineation, that some of those issued at the commencement of the work wouldhave
. The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland. P^inMRDWi. AUTHORS INTRODUCTION. [GOTLAND has been invariably described as a poverty-stricken field asregards architectural illustration; and the writer, when he commencedhis labours as a stranger to the country, of course shared in the generalopinion. But he was speedily undeceived, and at once extended hislabours very considerably beyond his original intentions. In spite ofthese additions, however, the results of his travels so multiplied the subjectsfor delineation, that some of those issued at the commencement of the work wouldhave been withheld, to be replaced by others of higher merit, could the extent of thefield have been from the first foreseen. This, however, was impossible; and, inconsequence, the limits originally assigned to the publication have been reached,while many subjects, which may appear to some of sufficient extent, and sufficiently in harmonywith its general scope, to have claimed a place in it remain entirely untouched. At the same time it must be remembered, that the int
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