Scotland/Scots > Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland

In plan and execution the present volume differs from
most works published with similar intent. Eloquence or
E ambitious eulogium of the scenery to which the volume
is meant to be a guide, has been studiously suppressed.
A plain and intelligible account is given of those locali-
| ties most worthy of the attention of strangers, and of the
I means by which they can be reached; the measure of
admiration with which they must be contemplated is not
prescribed. By adopting this course, space has been found
for the incorporation of Traditionary, Historical, and
Pictorial Illustration, by which it is thought a recollec¬
tion of the scenery will be more permanently fixed in the
memory of the tourist, than by any description of its
features which the author could himself have given.
| Neither labour nor expense has been spared to give
the work the greatest possible degree of accuracy. To
secure this object, all the principal touring districts have
been specially and frequently traversed, in order that the