VI PKEFACE. 



climate and invigorating recreations to be found in the 

 " land of the mountain and the flood." It is for such 

 as these the following pages are chiefly intended. 

 The author, himself a mere tyro in the branches of 

 sport therein treated of, would give to brother-beginners 

 some idea of the enjoyment which is attainable by all 

 who may be possessed of ordinary activity and perse- 

 verance. With this object in view, he has endeavoured 

 to give a faithful narrative of his own experiences ; 

 and while, for the advantage and warning of the novice, 

 he has not left unrecorded his own errors, he would 

 humbly deprecate severe criticism at the hands of the 

 more experienced veteran. 



The following pages have been compiled from 

 letters and notes written among the scenes which they 

 attempt to portray. It should however be here stated, 

 that the present connected series of letters was not in 

 contemplation at the time when the first was written. 

 But after six had appeared in the columns of that 

 excellent publication ( The Field ' newspaper, and 

 more were still in hand, it was thought advisable to 

 publish them all together in a small volume. Thus it 

 is the Author has been led on to present them to the 

 Public, in the hope that they might be found in some 

 degree interesting to all lovers of the Eod or the 

 Eifle. 



The foregoing remarks formed the preface to a 

 little book lately published, and entitled " Letters 

 from the Highlands; or, Two Months among the 



