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Excerpt from The Scottish Tourist, and Itinerary: Being a Guide to the Scenery and Antiquities of Scotland and the Western Islands; With a Description of the Principal Steam-Boat Tours Many books, descriptive of Scottish scenery, have from time to time been published. Though the fidelity of the descriptions in some of these may be relied upon, and though they afford both ia struction and amusement in the closet, it is evi dent, from the nature of the plans adopted, that they can be of little practical use to the Tourist, as the authors describe only what they actually saw, without noticing the antiquities, local sta tistics, and other interesting objects in the vicinity of the scenes they visited and even though former productions were not deficient in these particulars, still such a work as the present must be useful, since the formation of new roads, and other im portant changes, have created new facilities for travelling, opened new communications, and ren dered many places accessible by carriages and steam boats, that could formerly be approached only by the pedestrian. 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.