SYLVA SCOTICA. 



Scotland is, in every respect, too interesting and 

 too important a portion of Great Britain, to be passed 

 over in any work illustrative of national topography ; 

 and though it cannot in the present day be deemed, 

 as it was in former ages, a thickly-wooded country, 

 yet the specimens of Forest Scenery, which it af- 

 fords in particular districts, are so grand and impres- 

 sive, and many of the individual trees, of different 

 species, so remarkable, and attended with so many 

 " spirit-stirring " associations, that a much larger 

 portion of this work might have been devoted to the 

 illustration of them, had it not already nearly at- 

 tained its destined limits ; even whilst the author 

 still found subjects of beauty and interest, in every 

 part of the kingdom, continually awakening his admi- 

 ration ; and soliciting, nay, demanding his attention 

 by attractions which he could not have resisted, had 

 he not determined to carry his present undertaking 

 no farther than the boundary he originally prescribed 



