Front matter

Transcriber’s Note:

Footnotes were numbered beginning afresh with each chapter. They have been resequenced across the entire text for uniqueness. On occasion, notes are cross-referenced by number. These references have been changed as well.

In Appendix II (pp. 410-427), a lengthy poem is presented with the Gaelic and the English translations on facing pages, so that the reader may readily compare them. They are too wide to give column-wise here. To honor the intent of the author, this section has been reorganized to give each verse and its translation together, the English following the Gaelic in staggered fashion. On the last page of each version, (pp. 426-427), there is, on each page, a Notes section at the bottom. These have been combined to follow the last of the passages.

Footnotes have been collected at the end of each chapter, and are linked for ease of reference.

Links in the Index are provided for those in Volume III only.

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

Any corrections are indicated using an underline highlight. Placing the cursor over the correction will produce the original text in a small popup.

Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text.

There are numerous references in the Index to topics in the previous two volumes. Only those references to the current volume are linked.

CELTIC SCOTLAND

Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable

FOR

DAVID DOUGLAS.

LONDON SIMPKIN, HAMILTON, KENT, AND CO., LIM.

CAMBRIDGE MACMILLAN AND BOWES.

GLASGOW JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS.

SCOTLAND with the ANCIENT DIVISIONS Of THE LAND.