Download or read book Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. 4 of 20 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Vol. 4 of 20: Periodical Criticism; Miscellaneous Every thing belonging to the Highlands of Scot land has of late become peculiarly interesting. It is not much above half a century since it was other wise. The inhabitants of the Lowlands of Scot land were, indeed, aware that there existed, in the extremity of the island, amid wilder mountains and broader lakes than their own, tribes of men called clans, living each under the rule of their own chief, wearing a peculiar dress, speaking an un known language, and going armed even in the vol. Xx. A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.