Topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 1

ADVERTISEMENT.
T is pretty generally known that the most authentic and valu-
able mass of facts and statistical details ever brought together,
in relation to the Ecclesiastical, Educational, and Municipal
institutions of Scotland, are to be found in the several extensive series of
i Reports which have been published, within the last ten years, by the
different Parliamentary and Royal Commissions appointed to inquire into
these matters. An elaborate and careful digest of the information contained
in these Reports forms the principal feature of value in The Topo-
graphical, Statistical, and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland,
which will be found to contain, in an abstract and condensed yet com-
prehensive form, not the results only, but also a considerable portion of
the details embraced in the voluminous Reports of which the following
is a list :
I. Reports of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the State of the
Universities of Scotland. Published between the years 1830 and 1839, in 5 vols,
folio.
II. Reports upon the Boundaries of the several Cities, Burghs, and Towns in Scot-
land, in respect to the Election of Members to serve in Parliament. Published
in 1832, in folio.
III. Reports of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the State of Municipal
Corporations in Scotland. Published in 1835, in 2 vols, folio.
IV. Abstract of the Answers and Returns on the subject of Education in Scotland,
made pursuant to an Address of the House of Commons dated 9th July, 1834.
Published in 1837, in folio.
V. Reports of the Commissioners of Religious Instruction in Scotland. Published
betwixt the years 1837 and 1839, in 9 vols, folio.
VI. Reports by the Inspectors of Prisons in Scotland. Published betwixt the years
1836 and 1842, in 6 vols, folio.
The Reports now enumerated have furnished the most valuable mate-
rials to the present Work ; and in the existence of such documents as