A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans . HISTORY OF THE HIGHLANDS, CJie mQf)lmxXi €lam, By JAMES BROWNE, , Advocai ^^ ft. HISTORY OF THE HIGHLANDS €fft m0)\mxXi Clans, JAMES BROWNE, Esq., , Advocate. ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF PORTRAITS, FAMILY ARMS, AND OTHERILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS. VOL I. , GLASGOW: A. FULLARTON. & CO., 110, BRUNSWICK STREET; 6, ROXBURGH PLACE, EDINBURGH; AND 12. KINGS SQUARE, GOSWELL STREET, LONDON. 1840. £81-7 V. ^ 6 - f-^S^^ TL. ANl CO., ^I^JV^B^, ; (^I INFIELD. PREFACE. In offering to tlie public the following History of the Highlands a
A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans . HISTORY OF THE HIGHLANDS, CJie mQf)lmxXi €lam, By JAMES BROWNE, , Advocai ^^ ft. HISTORY OF THE HIGHLANDS €fft m0)\mxXi Clans, JAMES BROWNE, Esq., , Advocate. ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF PORTRAITS, FAMILY ARMS, AND OTHERILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS. VOL I. , GLASGOW: A. FULLARTON. & CO., 110, BRUNSWICK STREET; 6, ROXBURGH PLACE, EDINBURGH; AND 12. KINGS SQUARE, GOSWELL STREET, LONDON. 1840. £81-7 V. ^ 6 - f-^S^^ TL. ANl CO., ^I^JV^B^, ; (^I INFIELD. PREFACE. In offering to tlie public the following History of the Highlands aii»JHighland Clans, which has so long occupied my attention, I think it rightto state, without reserve, that the Work makes no pretensions whateverto original discover}^, or novel speculation. Nothing is more easy thanto hazard conjectures, invent theories, construct plausible hypotheses,and indulge in shadowy generalizations. In the regions of doubt andobscurity, there is always ample scope for the exercise of that barreningenuity, which prefers the fanciful to the certain, and aims at tiiepraise of originality by exciting surprise rather than producing convic-tion. My object has throughout been of a humbler, though, as I conceive,of a much more useful kind. I have sought to embrace, in this Work,the different branches of the subject of which it treats, and to renderit a repertory of general information respecting all that relates to theHighlands of Scotland rathe
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