- Hardcover: 724 pages
- Publisher: John Donald Publishers Ltd; 5th edition (Feb 1974)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0859760022
- ISBN-13: 978-0859760027
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,301,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... LETTER XXVI. Concerning the New Roads, £f?V., 173--IT is now about eight Years since 1 sent you the Conclusion of my rambling Account of the Highlands; and, perhaps, you would not have complained if, in this long Interval, you had been perfectly free of so barren a Subject. Monsieur Fontenelle, I remember, in one of his pastoral Dialogues, makes a Shepherd object to another--Quoi! toujours de f Amour? And I think you may as well ask--What! always Highlands? But in my Situation, without them, I should be in the sorrowful Condition of an old Woman in her Country Cottage, by a Winter Fire, and nobody would hearken to her Tales of Witches and Spirits;--that is, to have little or nothing to say. But now 1 am a perfect Volunteer, and cannot plead my former Excuses, and really am without any Apprehensions of being thought officious in giving you some Account of the Roads, which, within these few Weeks, have been completely finished. These new Roads were begun in the Year 1726, and have continued about eleven Years in the Prosecution; yet, long as it may be thought, if you were to pass over the whole Work (for the Borders of it would show you what it was), I make no Doubt but that Number of Years would diminish in your Imagination to a much shorter Tract of Time, by Comparison with the Difficulties that attended the Execution. But, before I proceed to any particular Descriptions of them, I shall inform you how they lie, to the End that you may trace them out upon a Map of Scotland; and first I shall take them as they are made, to enter the Mountains, viz. One of them begins from Grief, which is about fourteen Miles from Stirling: here the Romans left off their Works, of which some Parts are visible to this Day, particularly the Camp at Ardoch, where the Vesti...
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