Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, 1818, Vol. 4
This spirit has risen to its greatest height in our own da The singular and interest ing qualities 0 the Highland character have never been so carefully displayed, nor so highly admired, as in the times in which we live. Poetry has cheerfully emigrated to refresh her withered laurels in the north, and romance has sought its appropriate oh scurity and terrors in the loomy caverns, the trackless deserts, endt e obsolete fero city of the Scottish Highlands. The more humble tourist has feebly impressed upon every rock some memorandum of his tran sitory visit, and has impregnated his labour ing quarto with many anecdotes and tradi tions long since told, and as long disbelieved. There is not a recess in this Wild and inter esting country, which has not been ex plored by some venturous traveller, - and so much have all the arts of the south been rendered subservient to the illustration of this region of mist, that there is hardly a romantic spot in it, or a frowning precipice, or a rushing cataract, or an antique castle, or a gloomy cave, which has not been com memorated in song, or delineated in some crude specimen of the graphic art, such as popular travels and other ephemeral works are competent to supply.
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