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Excerpt from Traditions of the Covenanters: Or Gleanings Among the Mountains Multitudes, says the historian, were hiding and wander ing in mountains and caves, and not a few from other places of the kingdom had retired to the mountainous parts of Galloway and Nithsdale. It was not the design of the writer to compose tales founded on the incidents, but simply to present the Tradition in its native simplicity and truth. It would be an easy matter to in vest these anecdotes with imaginative interest; but then that would destroy their character as traditionary realities. It is the design of this collection to preserve the memory of some of those good men in the inferior ranks of society, whose worth and whose sufferings have not hitherto been recorded. Their names, though those of plain, unlettered men, do not deserve to perish and their posterity may, by contemplating the virtues ancestors, be stimulated to emulate their godliness. 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.