Excerpt from History of the Ancient Province of Ross (the County Palatine of Scotland): From the Earliest to the Present Time A History of the Ancient Province of Ross has long been a felt want. Under the conviction that such a work ought to come from the hands of a native of the Province, the writer has devoted much of his lifetime towards collecting and arranging the necessary materials for the purpose. As a native, therefore, and endued with the enthusiasm. Proper for the task, personally conversant with its storied topography and the social habits of its people, and versed in its once universal language, the writer submits, with all due modesty, the following chapters as the fruits of his researches in what has proved to be a rich and eminently romantic field. 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.