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Excerpt from Scotland and the Scotch: Or the Western Circuit, Dedicated to the Highland Society An excursion in Scotland wants the novelty and adventure of savage life neither can it boast of anything to com pare with the gorgeous paraphernalia of a continental tour The traveller must here dispense with carnivals, operas, cath edrals, restaurateurs, brigands, improvisa tori, arch-dukes, and ex-kings; nor can he fall into raptures about the Venus de Medici, or the climate, but to compensate for these lamentable deficiencies, we have in the Highlands old traditions, second sight, bagpipes, witchcraft, clans, tartan, whiskey, heather, muir-fowl, red deer, and J acobites! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.