PKEFACE. 



THESE desultory notes were originally undertaken at 

 the instigation of an invalid friend, desirous of a 

 closer acquaintance with our lonely environments. 



At the termination of a nine years' residence on 

 the Eock, I have been advised to publish them in 

 book form, and being fortunate in securing the 

 services of a generous publisher, they are now 

 collected from the columns of the local press and 

 issued in this form in the hope that they may 

 interest the general reader. 



I have to thank the Editors of The Arbroath (hdde 

 and Chambers' s Journal for their courtesy 



J. M. CAMPBELL, 



Assistant Lightkeeper. 



BELL ROCK LIGHTHOUSE, 

 May 1904. 



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