Books and other items printed in Gaelic from 1871 to 1900 > Cunntas air boidhicheadan Ceann-Lochearn agus Edinample, or, A description of the beauties of Edinample and Lochearnhead

Gf the second edition published at Aber-
feldy nothing need be said except that it
is a faithful reprint of the original done
by some one who appears from the short
preface he favors us >vith, to have been
unable either to express himself in decent
English, or to spell proper names correctly.
So much for the biography of the book.
A short account of the district of Loch-
earnhead may perhaps not unfitly be in¬
serted here in explanation of that given
by M‘ D.
Lochearnhead (in Gaelic, Ceann Lochearn,
and in English tongue, Lock-heunn-edd)
is situated at the upper or western end
of Lochearn in Perthshire, and consists of
a central point or hotel, to which are at¬
tached a post office, ‘merchant’s’ shop, and
two schoolhouses; the whole adorning the
junction of three roads—the ‘trivium’ of the
Romans. Within a radius of half a mile
from this central point are cottages scat¬
tered here and there on the hill sides and
shores of the loch, inhabited by crofters
and by the handicraftsmen of the district.
The soil is primitively cultivated as far as
nature will allow, and the rest is left to
cows, sheep, and legitimate game. The in¬
habitants are Celts, their language to one