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CONTENTS
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Electric Scotland News
Electric Canadian
The Flag in the Wind
Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Scottish Poets in America
Life Jottings of an Old Edinburgh Citizen
James Ballantine
Calendar Of Documents Relating to Scotland
Northern Notes and Queries
A Description of the Scenery of Dunkeld
Songs of Robert Burns
The Bards of Bon Accord 1375 - 1860 (New Book)
History of Aberdeen and Banff (New Book)
Between the Ochils and the Forth (New Book)
Electric Scotland News
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Have just learned that there is a new Facebook app for our community so have purchased it and hope to have it installed over the weekend.
-----
This newsletter is a day late due to me coming down with a hacking cough and thus not feeling too well. Now into my second day without smoking so dependimg om how long this continues might be a positive move.
Electric Canadian
-----------------
The Father of St. Kilda http://www.electriccanadian.com/makers/father/index.htm
Twenty Years in Isolation in the Sub-Arctic Territory of the Hudson's Bay Company by Roderick Campbell, F.R.G.S. (1901). Essentially this is an account of a young lad growing up in the Western Islands of Scotland and then at 16 joining the Hudson Bay Company as an apprentice and sailing to Canada and then an account of his life for the next 20 years or so.
Past and Present http://www.electriccanadian.com/Religion/past/index.htm
Or a Description of Persons and Events Connected with Canadian Methodism. Have completed the first part of this two part book.
My own first impressions of the First Nations http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...mpressions.htm
By Alastair McIntyre
Angus Chisholm http://www.electricscotland.com/musi...s_chisholm.htm
Cape Breton Fiddler.
Centennial of Canadian Methodism (1891). http://www.electriccanadian.com/Reli...dism/index.htm
British North America http://www.electriccanadian.com/history/bna/index.htm
This is an account of Canada given as a series of lectures in 1898. Some very prominent people gave these lectures and hence they are of interest in tracing Canadian history. None of them are very long and so this will give you a quick introductiont to the old history of the various Provinces of Canada.
ABOUT THE STORIES
-----------------
Some of the stories in here are just parts of a larger story so do check out the site for the full versions. You can always find the link in our "What's New" section in our site menu and at http://www.electricscotland.com/whatsnew.htm and also http://www.electriccanadian.com/whatsnew.htm
THE FLAG IN THE WIND
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This weeks issue has been Compiled by Jim Lynch with a wide range of topics.
You can read this issue at http://www.scotsindependent.org
Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language
----------------------------------------------
We've added more to this dictionary...
Scottish Language Letter N
You can read this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...eson/index.htm
Scottish Poets in America
-------------------------
With Biographical and Critical Notices by John D, Ross (1889)
Now added...
Moffat, Prof. James C.
This is a new entry for this week and can be found at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet.../chapter14.htm
The other entries can be found at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet...rica/index.htm
Life Jottings of an Old Edinburgh Citizen
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By Sir J. H. A. MacDonald P.C., K.C.B., Lord Justice-Clerk.
Added this week...
Chapter Twenty-Six
Judges in i860—Lord-Advocate Moncreiff— Solicitor-General Maitland- -Deanship and Lord-Advocateship combined—Cockburn deprecated—No such combination now—Solicitor-Genera! Young—A caustic wit—Bar anecdotes—The "Sons of the Manse"—Robert Louis Stevenson—Private theatricals—/8th Highlanders—Arrival home after Indian Mutiny
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Prince Consort's death—Proposals for monument—Too outrageous— Marriage of Prince of Wales—Illuminations—Ill-directed hospitality— Opening of Scottish Museum by Duke of Edinburgh—Fenian plots— Special constables
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Faculty of Advocates not businesslike—Sale of premises to W.S. Society —Sale of Sheriff Court site—Sale of coins and cabinet —Loss of £4300 - -Cabinet unique—Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty—Solicitor-General - City of Glasgow Bank failure—Emoluments of Solicitor-General—Proposal. to reduce number of judges, although Ireland had nearly double, with less business—Appointed Dean of Faculty—Extension of Advocates' Library
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Royal Review, 1881—Torrents of rain—Seas of mud—Terrible return journeys—Many deaths in consequence—Well-borne test of discipline— Restoration of St. Giles' Cathedral—Chapel of Knights of Thistle
Chapter Thirty
Cockburn Association—No aid from body of citizens—Work done—Iron railings round buildings—Portrait Gallery—Tron Church—St. Paul's—St. Giles'—Filthy space behind railings—Royal Institution—St. George's Church- -St. Andrew's Church—National Gallery—Plea for Princes Street —Plea for Calton Hill—National Monument railing—Place for bandstand —Ramsay Garden
These chapters can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ings/index.htm
James Ballantine
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We continue our book "Gaberlunzies Wallet" and now have up Chapter 12 which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...nine/index.htm
Calendar Of Documents Relating to Scotland
------------------------------------------
By Joseph Bain
Our thanks to John Henderson for compiling this for us. This week we've added...
Volume 3
1340 to 1354
You can get to this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...bain/index.htm
Northern Notes and Queries
--------------------------
Edited by Rev. R. W. Cornelious Hallen (1886)
We now have up the next Issue of this publication. September Quarterly Edition 1887, which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...hern/index.htm
A Description of the Scenery of Dunkeld
---------------------------------------
And in Blair of Atholl (1823)
Added this week...
Glen Tilt
The Bruar - Falls, and Scenery - Tulloch Hill
South Side of Garry - Killiecrankie - Cascade of Urrard
Fall of the Tumel - Coilivrochan - Loch Tumel
And this now completes this book.
You can get to this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...keld/index.htm
Songs of Robert Burns
---------------------
We added "Connubial" to this book.
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/songs/index.htm
The Bards of Bon Accord 1375 - 1860
-----------------------------------
By William Walker
Various works purporting to deal with Scottish minor poets and poetry have within recent years been placed before the public—some of them excellent so far as they went, others little better than mere catchpennies, crude and unreliable—all of them defective, because the field was too wide for any one man to master or one work contain. I have long felt certain that an adequate presentation of such a subject was only possible through each shire or district receiving separate treatment—hence " The Bards of Bon-Accord."
Though the plan proposed in this work was to deal with those writers only, who, connected by birth or residence with our north-eastern district, have published up to I860, yet its subject is brought down to a much more recent date—living writers, however, with one exception, being excluded from the body ot‘ the work. In the Appendix of Fugitive Poetry this latter restriction has been discarded, and notices of living writers whose effusions engaged public attention prior to 1860 are there given. In the bibliography forming part II. of the Appendix, biographical notes have frequently been added, in order to render the work as fairly complete as the limits of one volume would allow. The treatment of the whole subject is chronological, and dates, more or less approximative, have been given at the top of each page, so that a reader may know at once the period to which any author belongs. The work docs not pretend to include every writer of verses connected with the locality, but it is believed that 110 one of appreciable local repute will be found mi-noted in its pages.
The Index has been arranged to serve a three-fold purpose —biographical items being printed in small capitals—poems quoted, in italics—other matters, in ordinary type.
My brother, Mr. James D. Walker, Glasgow, has not only contributed a number of the articles in their entirety, but along with Mr. J. P. Edmond has rendered great assistance throughout the preparation of the work. To them, as well as to those friends—they are too numerous to mention by name— who, by the use of books, manuscripts, family papers, letters, &e., have materially aided me throughout my work, I tender my warmest thanks.
WILL. WALKER.
You can read thi book as we get it up at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet...cord/index.htm
History of Aberdeen and Banff
-----------------------------
By WIlliam Watt (1900)
The History of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff was undertaken by Mr Alexander Allardyce, and at the time of his decease he had carried the work, at least in outline, as far as the early years of the Reformation period. When the task, auspiciously begun by him, devolved upon another, it seemed desirable, on various grounds, that the writer should make himself responsive for the whole book. The proportions to be allotted to the different parts were accordingly determined afresh, and the treatment proceeded from the beginning in conformity with the writer's estimate of the significance of events and his interpretation of the manifold data with which he had to deal. But portions of the materials left by Mr Allardyce have been used, and frequently also there is an incidental indebtedness to him in the early Chapters.
Throughout this brief retrospect of the two shires, the aim has been to give as clear a presentation as possible of the essential facts and the sequence of events in the course of their progress, bringing into prominence whatever has been distinctive in their life and action and showing wherein they have differed from other counties and from the country as a whole, and what have been their special contributions to the national history.
The broad general principle has been steadily kept in view, that no statement or tradition should be accepted as historical for which there is not clear and definite evidence. There is the less temptation to give heed to legendary or mythical elements that here the authentic records are so exceptionally abundant and complete. By the great work carried out in connection with the first Spalding Club, supplemented in recent years by that of its successor, a large body of the true materials and data of the history of northeastern Scotland has been collected, arranged, annotated, and indexed, to the great advantage of every one entering on this field of historical research. Less socrial to the north-east, but invaluable in relation to all such inquiries, are the many volumes now published in which the contents of the national archives are analysed and rendered more conveniently accessible, as also the calendars and abstracts issued by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, of papers in the hands of private persons and corporate authorities, to all which has to be added the extensive results of private enterprise, through book-clubs and otherwise, in publishing the documents of the provincial as well as the national history of Scotland. While the writer's main indebtedness has necessarily been to these various sources of documentary evidence, he has to acknowledge the generous assistance he has invariably received from possessors of local information, or custodians of records, to whom he has had occasion to apply with regard to particular points.
Acknowledgment has also to be made of important assistance in the compilation of the bibliography. It is almost exclusively confined to publications having a direct bearing on matters coming within the scope of this history. A full bibliography of the two shires, including works by Aberdeenshire and Banffshire authors, is announced by the New Spalding Club, and is expected to form a large volume.
17 Queen's Road, Aberdeen,
February 1900.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...deen/index.htm
Between the Ochils and the Forth
--------------------------------
A Description, Topographical and Historical of the Country between Stirling Bridge and Aberdour by David Beveridge (1888)
IN the History of Culross and Tulliallan the author endeavoured to present a monograph of two Scottish parishes occupying a somewhat secluded situation on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. He also sought to exhibit a picture of the domestic life of a bygone day, as elucidated from the kirk-session records of the two parishes, and the minutes of town council of the ancient burgh of Culross. The present undertaking may be characterised as having to a considerable extent a similar object in view, though the illustration of the theme by extracts from the municipal and ecclesiastical archives has not been attempted. A much wider field, however, is included, and at the same time a minute and careful description has been furnished as far as possible of every locality and event of interest belonging to the district under notice. It is a region which, though neither inaccessible nor remote, is still comparatively unknown to, and unvisited by, the majority of Scottish tourists. Yet it is connected with some of the most important events in Scottish history, and as regards natural beauty, it will in many places vie in richness with the finest specimens of English rural scenery.
Whilst the work in question aims rather at a picturesque and historical delineation of that portion of the upper shores of the Forth lying between Stirling Bridge and Aberdour, than at the formal and business-like character of a guide-book, it is nevertheless hoped that in the latter capacity it may not be found wanting in attraction or devoid of practical utility. The distances between the different places have all been set down with special care, as ascertained both by personal investigation and a careful comparison with the maps of the Ordnance Survey. The line and direction also of the varous pub1ic roads, as well as the principal inns in the different towns and villages, have all been indicated. The author has trodden himself almost every foot of the district, with the most of which he has been familiar from childhood, and he has, moreover, quite recently made a pilgrimage through and investigated the particular localities with great care and minuteness. He would thus fain hope that the completed work, the outcome in great measure of these wanderings, may prove interesting and useful both to travellers and general readers.
Of late years locomotion by means of bicycles and tricycles has come greatly into vogue, and one of the results has been that the old coach-roads, long deserted, have again been largely utilised. For travellers on such vehicles it is also hoped that this work may be found to contain some useful information and directions both as to the line of route and the objects of interest by the way.
Rosehill, Torryburn, May 1888.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...hils/index.htm
And finally...
Christmas Present?
The Bible updated. It is suggested that the gospels should now read: "And in those days Emperor Augustus decreed that all must return to the town of their birth, that they might sort out their parents' computers."
And that's all for now and hope you all enjoy your weekend.
Alastair
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Electric Scotland News
Electric Canadian
The Flag in the Wind
Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Scottish Poets in America
Life Jottings of an Old Edinburgh Citizen
James Ballantine
Calendar Of Documents Relating to Scotland
Northern Notes and Queries
A Description of the Scenery of Dunkeld
Songs of Robert Burns
The Bards of Bon Accord 1375 - 1860 (New Book)
History of Aberdeen and Banff (New Book)
Between the Ochils and the Forth (New Book)
Electric Scotland News
----------------------
Have just learned that there is a new Facebook app for our community so have purchased it and hope to have it installed over the weekend.
-----
This newsletter is a day late due to me coming down with a hacking cough and thus not feeling too well. Now into my second day without smoking so dependimg om how long this continues might be a positive move.
Electric Canadian
-----------------
The Father of St. Kilda http://www.electriccanadian.com/makers/father/index.htm
Twenty Years in Isolation in the Sub-Arctic Territory of the Hudson's Bay Company by Roderick Campbell, F.R.G.S. (1901). Essentially this is an account of a young lad growing up in the Western Islands of Scotland and then at 16 joining the Hudson Bay Company as an apprentice and sailing to Canada and then an account of his life for the next 20 years or so.
Past and Present http://www.electriccanadian.com/Religion/past/index.htm
Or a Description of Persons and Events Connected with Canadian Methodism. Have completed the first part of this two part book.
My own first impressions of the First Nations http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...mpressions.htm
By Alastair McIntyre
Angus Chisholm http://www.electricscotland.com/musi...s_chisholm.htm
Cape Breton Fiddler.
Centennial of Canadian Methodism (1891). http://www.electriccanadian.com/Reli...dism/index.htm
British North America http://www.electriccanadian.com/history/bna/index.htm
This is an account of Canada given as a series of lectures in 1898. Some very prominent people gave these lectures and hence they are of interest in tracing Canadian history. None of them are very long and so this will give you a quick introductiont to the old history of the various Provinces of Canada.
ABOUT THE STORIES
-----------------
Some of the stories in here are just parts of a larger story so do check out the site for the full versions. You can always find the link in our "What's New" section in our site menu and at http://www.electricscotland.com/whatsnew.htm and also http://www.electriccanadian.com/whatsnew.htm
THE FLAG IN THE WIND
--------------------
This weeks issue has been Compiled by Jim Lynch with a wide range of topics.
You can read this issue at http://www.scotsindependent.org
Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language
----------------------------------------------
We've added more to this dictionary...
Scottish Language Letter N
You can read this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...eson/index.htm
Scottish Poets in America
-------------------------
With Biographical and Critical Notices by John D, Ross (1889)
Now added...
Moffat, Prof. James C.
This is a new entry for this week and can be found at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet.../chapter14.htm
The other entries can be found at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet...rica/index.htm
Life Jottings of an Old Edinburgh Citizen
-----------------------------------------
By Sir J. H. A. MacDonald P.C., K.C.B., Lord Justice-Clerk.
Added this week...
Chapter Twenty-Six
Judges in i860—Lord-Advocate Moncreiff— Solicitor-General Maitland- -Deanship and Lord-Advocateship combined—Cockburn deprecated—No such combination now—Solicitor-Genera! Young—A caustic wit—Bar anecdotes—The "Sons of the Manse"—Robert Louis Stevenson—Private theatricals—/8th Highlanders—Arrival home after Indian Mutiny
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Prince Consort's death—Proposals for monument—Too outrageous— Marriage of Prince of Wales—Illuminations—Ill-directed hospitality— Opening of Scottish Museum by Duke of Edinburgh—Fenian plots— Special constables
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Faculty of Advocates not businesslike—Sale of premises to W.S. Society —Sale of Sheriff Court site—Sale of coins and cabinet —Loss of £4300 - -Cabinet unique—Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty—Solicitor-General - City of Glasgow Bank failure—Emoluments of Solicitor-General—Proposal. to reduce number of judges, although Ireland had nearly double, with less business—Appointed Dean of Faculty—Extension of Advocates' Library
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Royal Review, 1881—Torrents of rain—Seas of mud—Terrible return journeys—Many deaths in consequence—Well-borne test of discipline— Restoration of St. Giles' Cathedral—Chapel of Knights of Thistle
Chapter Thirty
Cockburn Association—No aid from body of citizens—Work done—Iron railings round buildings—Portrait Gallery—Tron Church—St. Paul's—St. Giles'—Filthy space behind railings—Royal Institution—St. George's Church- -St. Andrew's Church—National Gallery—Plea for Princes Street —Plea for Calton Hill—National Monument railing—Place for bandstand —Ramsay Garden
These chapters can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ings/index.htm
James Ballantine
----------------
We continue our book "Gaberlunzies Wallet" and now have up Chapter 12 which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...nine/index.htm
Calendar Of Documents Relating to Scotland
------------------------------------------
By Joseph Bain
Our thanks to John Henderson for compiling this for us. This week we've added...
Volume 3
1340 to 1354
You can get to this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...bain/index.htm
Northern Notes and Queries
--------------------------
Edited by Rev. R. W. Cornelious Hallen (1886)
We now have up the next Issue of this publication. September Quarterly Edition 1887, which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...hern/index.htm
A Description of the Scenery of Dunkeld
---------------------------------------
And in Blair of Atholl (1823)
Added this week...
Glen Tilt
The Bruar - Falls, and Scenery - Tulloch Hill
South Side of Garry - Killiecrankie - Cascade of Urrard
Fall of the Tumel - Coilivrochan - Loch Tumel
And this now completes this book.
You can get to this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...keld/index.htm
Songs of Robert Burns
---------------------
We added "Connubial" to this book.
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/songs/index.htm
The Bards of Bon Accord 1375 - 1860
-----------------------------------
By William Walker
Various works purporting to deal with Scottish minor poets and poetry have within recent years been placed before the public—some of them excellent so far as they went, others little better than mere catchpennies, crude and unreliable—all of them defective, because the field was too wide for any one man to master or one work contain. I have long felt certain that an adequate presentation of such a subject was only possible through each shire or district receiving separate treatment—hence " The Bards of Bon-Accord."
Though the plan proposed in this work was to deal with those writers only, who, connected by birth or residence with our north-eastern district, have published up to I860, yet its subject is brought down to a much more recent date—living writers, however, with one exception, being excluded from the body ot‘ the work. In the Appendix of Fugitive Poetry this latter restriction has been discarded, and notices of living writers whose effusions engaged public attention prior to 1860 are there given. In the bibliography forming part II. of the Appendix, biographical notes have frequently been added, in order to render the work as fairly complete as the limits of one volume would allow. The treatment of the whole subject is chronological, and dates, more or less approximative, have been given at the top of each page, so that a reader may know at once the period to which any author belongs. The work docs not pretend to include every writer of verses connected with the locality, but it is believed that 110 one of appreciable local repute will be found mi-noted in its pages.
The Index has been arranged to serve a three-fold purpose —biographical items being printed in small capitals—poems quoted, in italics—other matters, in ordinary type.
My brother, Mr. James D. Walker, Glasgow, has not only contributed a number of the articles in their entirety, but along with Mr. J. P. Edmond has rendered great assistance throughout the preparation of the work. To them, as well as to those friends—they are too numerous to mention by name— who, by the use of books, manuscripts, family papers, letters, &e., have materially aided me throughout my work, I tender my warmest thanks.
WILL. WALKER.
You can read thi book as we get it up at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet...cord/index.htm
History of Aberdeen and Banff
-----------------------------
By WIlliam Watt (1900)
The History of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff was undertaken by Mr Alexander Allardyce, and at the time of his decease he had carried the work, at least in outline, as far as the early years of the Reformation period. When the task, auspiciously begun by him, devolved upon another, it seemed desirable, on various grounds, that the writer should make himself responsive for the whole book. The proportions to be allotted to the different parts were accordingly determined afresh, and the treatment proceeded from the beginning in conformity with the writer's estimate of the significance of events and his interpretation of the manifold data with which he had to deal. But portions of the materials left by Mr Allardyce have been used, and frequently also there is an incidental indebtedness to him in the early Chapters.
Throughout this brief retrospect of the two shires, the aim has been to give as clear a presentation as possible of the essential facts and the sequence of events in the course of their progress, bringing into prominence whatever has been distinctive in their life and action and showing wherein they have differed from other counties and from the country as a whole, and what have been their special contributions to the national history.
The broad general principle has been steadily kept in view, that no statement or tradition should be accepted as historical for which there is not clear and definite evidence. There is the less temptation to give heed to legendary or mythical elements that here the authentic records are so exceptionally abundant and complete. By the great work carried out in connection with the first Spalding Club, supplemented in recent years by that of its successor, a large body of the true materials and data of the history of northeastern Scotland has been collected, arranged, annotated, and indexed, to the great advantage of every one entering on this field of historical research. Less socrial to the north-east, but invaluable in relation to all such inquiries, are the many volumes now published in which the contents of the national archives are analysed and rendered more conveniently accessible, as also the calendars and abstracts issued by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, of papers in the hands of private persons and corporate authorities, to all which has to be added the extensive results of private enterprise, through book-clubs and otherwise, in publishing the documents of the provincial as well as the national history of Scotland. While the writer's main indebtedness has necessarily been to these various sources of documentary evidence, he has to acknowledge the generous assistance he has invariably received from possessors of local information, or custodians of records, to whom he has had occasion to apply with regard to particular points.
Acknowledgment has also to be made of important assistance in the compilation of the bibliography. It is almost exclusively confined to publications having a direct bearing on matters coming within the scope of this history. A full bibliography of the two shires, including works by Aberdeenshire and Banffshire authors, is announced by the New Spalding Club, and is expected to form a large volume.
17 Queen's Road, Aberdeen,
February 1900.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...deen/index.htm
Between the Ochils and the Forth
--------------------------------
A Description, Topographical and Historical of the Country between Stirling Bridge and Aberdour by David Beveridge (1888)
IN the History of Culross and Tulliallan the author endeavoured to present a monograph of two Scottish parishes occupying a somewhat secluded situation on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. He also sought to exhibit a picture of the domestic life of a bygone day, as elucidated from the kirk-session records of the two parishes, and the minutes of town council of the ancient burgh of Culross. The present undertaking may be characterised as having to a considerable extent a similar object in view, though the illustration of the theme by extracts from the municipal and ecclesiastical archives has not been attempted. A much wider field, however, is included, and at the same time a minute and careful description has been furnished as far as possible of every locality and event of interest belonging to the district under notice. It is a region which, though neither inaccessible nor remote, is still comparatively unknown to, and unvisited by, the majority of Scottish tourists. Yet it is connected with some of the most important events in Scottish history, and as regards natural beauty, it will in many places vie in richness with the finest specimens of English rural scenery.
Whilst the work in question aims rather at a picturesque and historical delineation of that portion of the upper shores of the Forth lying between Stirling Bridge and Aberdour, than at the formal and business-like character of a guide-book, it is nevertheless hoped that in the latter capacity it may not be found wanting in attraction or devoid of practical utility. The distances between the different places have all been set down with special care, as ascertained both by personal investigation and a careful comparison with the maps of the Ordnance Survey. The line and direction also of the varous pub1ic roads, as well as the principal inns in the different towns and villages, have all been indicated. The author has trodden himself almost every foot of the district, with the most of which he has been familiar from childhood, and he has, moreover, quite recently made a pilgrimage through and investigated the particular localities with great care and minuteness. He would thus fain hope that the completed work, the outcome in great measure of these wanderings, may prove interesting and useful both to travellers and general readers.
Of late years locomotion by means of bicycles and tricycles has come greatly into vogue, and one of the results has been that the old coach-roads, long deserted, have again been largely utilised. For travellers on such vehicles it is also hoped that this work may be found to contain some useful information and directions both as to the line of route and the objects of interest by the way.
Rosehill, Torryburn, May 1888.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...hils/index.htm
And finally...
Christmas Present?
The Bible updated. It is suggested that the gospels should now read: "And in those days Emperor Augustus decreed that all must return to the town of their birth, that they might sort out their parents' computers."
And that's all for now and hope you all enjoy your weekend.
Alastair