Excerpt from Origines Parochiales Scotiae: The Ancient Parochial Statistics of Scotland When the present Volume was commenced, it was expected that it would embrace, in addition to Argyll and the Isles, the three Northern Dioceses - Ross, Caithness, and Orkney. But when the Diocese of Ross was finished, it was found that the Volume already exceeded the proposed size, and that it would be extremely inconvenient, indeed impossible, to crowd into the same Volume the Dioceses of Caithness and Orkney. After much deliberation, the committee of the bannatyne club have resolved to issue, in One Part, the parishes OF argyll and the isles, and to reserve for another the diocese OF ross, already pridted, together with the diocese OF caithness, which is now in progress. It will. Be for after consideration whether the diocese OF orkney will. 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.