DEDICATION TO THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITION3. 



TO 



HER GRACE 



THE DUCHESS OF ATHOLL, 



MY DEAR DUCHESS, 



I VENTURE to inscribe the following pages to 

 Your Grace, however lightly they may be written. 



Years have passed over the exciting amuse- 

 ment which they treat of, but the glories of the 

 Highland landscape, though faded from my view, 

 are dear to my remembrance, and I look back, as 

 from out of a cheerless glen, upon these distant 



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