EDITORIAL NOTE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. THE BURNING OF MACFARLANE'S FOREST OF BEN LAOIDH. COMPARATIVELY RECENT DESTRUCTION OF THE FORESTS. LEGEND OF JOHN MACKAY OF ROSS-SHIRE, CALLED IAN MORE ARRACH, OR THE LEGEND OF JOHN MACPHERSON OF INVERESHIE. LEGEND OF ALLAN WITH THE RED JACKET. THE LEGEND OF THE BUILDING OF BALLINDALLOCH. LEGEND OF THE LAST GRANT OF TULLOCHCARRON. LEGEND OF CHIRSTY ROSS Continued . LEGEND OF GIBBON MORE CUMIN AND HIS DAUGHTER BIGLA. LEGEND OF THE RIVAL LAIRDS OF STRATHSPEY. Original Title Page. Highland Legends TWO VOLUMES IN ONE LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO. GLASGOW: THOMAS D. MORISON 1880 TO THE RIGHT HON. THE COUNTESS GREY. Dear Lady Grey. With your permission, I now dedicate these volumes to you. I should do so with great diffidence, did I not know that everything connected with Scotland is interesting to you. By associating them with a name so universally revered I give them value; whilst I afford to myself an opportunity of expressing my admiration of those many virtues and amiable qualities which have rendered it so much beloved in your person by all ranks who have the good fortune to come within reach of their influence; and I have thus also the satisfaction of expressing my warm sense of the kindness I have received from you and Lord Grey ever since I have had the honour of being known to you, as well as of assuring you that I am, With every possible respect, |