Excerpt from The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, Containing Descriptions of Their Scenery and Antiquities, Vol. 2 of 4 Tains, as singular in character as they are grand and graceful, form a magnificent distance to a picture, in which the middle ground is occupied, first by the broad expanse of the Clyde, gay with shipping in every position and in every variety of form, and still nearer, by the port of Greenock, crowded with masts, and sails, and build ings; while the town itself, and the high rocky and wooded banks that tower above it, produce foregrounds as appropriate as they are various and picturesque. Those who may have expected to find it a kind Of Wapping, deserve to be confined for their lives to that Odoriferous region, if they leave Greenock with the same impression. 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.