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Hon. Henry T. Liddell, which appear to me to be exquisitely 

 beautiful. Mr. D'Israeli likewise has ornamented my pages 

 with some beautiful lines, paraphrased from a translation 

 from the Gaelic, most obligingly sent to me by the Marquis 

 of Breadalbane. 



To my accomplished friend Mr. Skene, of Rubislaw, I am 

 under very great obligations, not only for some valuable 

 communications from himself, but also for other intelligence 

 which I have obtained by his means, and through his 

 influence. 



The Duchess Countess of Sutherland has condescendingly 

 procured for me a full account of her magnificent possessions 

 in the North, which has been most ably put together by 

 Mr. Taylor, to whose skill and diligence I am greatly 

 indebted. I wish my limits had permitted me to publish 

 the whole of this interesting document ; but I have inserted 

 the most essential parts of it, in detached places, where I 

 thought they would be most effective, and I beg to offer 

 my best thanks for them. 



A word or two I should add about the language I have 

 put into the mouths of the hillmen. It is neither the 

 Highland nor Lowland dialect, but such I believe, as is 

 spoken in Perthshire. The English, which the natives of 



