PREFACE vii 



The writer trusts that much of the matter contained in the 

 following pages may be regarded as typical of and applicable 

 in many respects to the Western Islands as a whole. He 

 would gladly have entered into greater detail regarding the 

 old-time industries, place-names, topography, traditions, and 

 folk-lore of Colonsay, but the general reader may be of 

 opinion that enough has been said on these matters in a 

 work primarily intended to treat of the flora of the island. 



M. M c ^. 



KILORAN, COLONSAY, 

 . December 1909. 



