Excerpt from Letters From a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London Likewise an Account of the Highlands With the Customs and Manners of the Highlanders, Vol. 2 Long after the art of government had been so far improved, that tranquillity was maintained and justice administered over all England and the Low-country of Scotland, the Highlands continued to afford a lively representation of the state of England before the Norman Conquest, and of all Eur0pe at the date of the Crusades. As to this day the effects remain of that state of society out of which the Highlands have so recently emerged, or rather as they are at present only in a state of transition, or passage into that situation in which the rest of the island has so long been placed, it becomes a subject of rational curiosity to attend cor rectly to the past and present state of that portion of territory. Beauties of Scotland, vol. V. 181. 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.