Excerpt from Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye IT was J uly - the July of 1859, and the fierce mid summer sun, which had been for weeks parchin g, broil irig, and blistering all London, had set when, while I was sitting with doors and windows wide Open, a familiar friend entered the room. As usual at this time of the year, my thoughts had been running on a holiday ramble, and visions of unvisited continental cities and lands were before me, when my friend gave a new current to my ideas, by announcing that the purpose of his visit was to ask me to join a shooting and fishing party in the Highlands. 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.