Salt-foot controversy

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to the plan of the work,* and I was obliged to
permit it to be inserted in the very curtailed and
imperfect manner in which it now stands. In con-
sequence of this, I gave myself less trouble with the
remaining article of Ross, which I had long delayed
through vexation and disappointment ; and though
it be accurate, and have several vouchers, it is
much compressed, and certainly far less documented
than otherwise would have been the case. All this,
if necessary, I could substantiate by parole testimony.
* This is intimated in the very book itself, in a note upon an-
other pedigree, (Vid. New Edit. Hist. Renf. p. 295.) where we
are told that it *' is an abridgement of a more detailed narrative,
wherein all the facts are established on the authority of public
records, private charters, cotemporary historians, &c and then it
is added, " It has, however, been found necessary to abstract the
Genealogy, as the History and authorities would here occupy too
considerable a space" and, accordingly, only one specific autho-
rity (Vid. same page,) has been retained.