Geographical collections relating to Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane.
Notes:
Vol. ii.
Editor:
Edited from Macfarlane's transcript in the Advocates' Library by Sir Arthur Mitchell.
Contents:
Latin, with English translations, and English. Topographical descriptions, largely 16th and 17th centuries, including descriptions by Timothy Pont, Robert Gordon of Straloch, James Gordon, Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet and David Buchanan. Also includes Robert Gordon's discourse 'Anent the government of Scotland as it wes befor the late troubles' (i.e., before 1637).