TO THE MOST NOBLE 

 JAMES DUKE OF MONTROSE, 



CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, 



^T, 8iC. &;c. 



1 HE work, which I take the liberty of inscribing 

 to Your Grace^ contains a description of the phmts of 

 Scotland^ a very large proportion of which are indige- 

 nous to the domains belonging to the Chief of the family 

 of Graham. The materials methodized by me in this 

 volume werCi many of them, collected at a period when 

 I could not anticipate that I should ever be called to 

 discharge those duties of public instruction which have 



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