Life of Flora Macdonald and her adventures with Prince Charles

EDITOR'S PREFACE.
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HE Life of Flora Macdonald, and her
adventures with Prince Charles, ap-
peared at different times in the Celtic
Magazine, and it is now given to the
public in this form to fill up a gap in the History of
the Highlands ; for hitherto no complete authentic
account of Flora Macdonald's Life has appeared.
Her Life by her grand-daughter, Mrs. Wylde, is
admittedly a romance in which fiction predominates ;
and the general reader is quite unable to separate the
fiction from the facts.
The Rev. Author of this narrative had opportunities
of obtaining information which enabled him to make
the work peculiarly valuable and interesting ; and our
only regret in connection with it is, that he did not
survive to see it through the press.
It was originally intended to add notes by the
Editor of the Celtic Magazine, but, except in a very
few instances, this idea has been departed from, in
consequence of Mr. Macgregor's death. The whole