PEEFACE TO THIED EDITION 



IN order to make my book on Highland Recreations 

 complete, I have united it with " Rocks and Rivers." 

 The materials have also increased on mj hands, 

 it being mj constant habit to mark down every 

 novelty not, however, entering it as manuscript 

 until strictly subjected to further observation. 



Without the slightest pretension to be called a 

 Naturalist, I have always endeavoured to keep my 

 eyes open when the wilder points of Nature were 

 unfolded before me ; and I can truly say, that no 

 part of my mountain-life has given me such unmixed 

 delight as watching for myself the minute and tender 

 care of the Great Parent of all good, in adapting 

 these creatures of the storm to their solitudes, and 

 spreading before them " a table in the wilderness." 



