PREFACE Having spent a
month or two during the last summer in rambling among the Highlands of
Scotland, I have written the following account of my adventures for the
amusement of my pupils, and of such other readers as may honor these pages
with a perusal. The narrative is strictly a personal one. The work does not
pretend to give a geographical, historical, or statistical account of
Scotland, but only a simple narration of the adventures of a traveler
rambling in a romantic country in search of recreation and enjoyment alone.
In writing the account, I have attempted nothing more than to reproduce for
the reader a picture of the scenes, such as they were, which presented
themselves to my attention. The book, therefore, claims no higher province
than that of offering a rational source of entertainment to the reader in
leisure hours. Abbott's
Institution, New York, Jan., 1848.
A Summer in
Scotland
By Jacob Abbott (1876) (pdf) |
