OR,

The Western Circuit,

PART FIRST.

AUTHOR OF

BY CATHERINE SINCLAIR,

MODERN ACCOMPLISHMENTS, ""MODERN SOCIETY, "9 HILL AND
CHARLIE SEYMOUR,' " "HOLIDAY HOUSE,"

VALLEY,

" &c.

66 SHETLAND AND THE SHETLANDERS,"

Brave world that has such people in it!

SHAKSPEARE.

DEDICATED TO THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY.

THIRD THOUSAND, WITH CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM WHYTE AND CO.
BOOKSELLERS TO THE QUEEN DOWAGER;

LONGMAN, ORME, AND CO.; HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.; DUNCAN AND
MALCOLM; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.; WHITTAKER AND CO.;
LONDON. W. CURRY, JUN. AND CO., DUBLIN. WILLIAM COLLINS,
GLASGOW; AND ROBERT CARTER, NEW YORK.

MDCCCXLI.

PREFACE.

Studious we toil, correct, amend, retouch,
Take much away, yet mostly leave too much.

Ir may probably be considered a somewhat presumptuous hope for the author to imagine she might add any interest to what is already familiarly known respecting past and present times in Scotland; and certainly if the many who could succeed in this attempt better, had undertaken the pleasing task at all, she might have entirely refrained from adding her mite to the general fund of entertainment on those interesting topics. The mine is abundant, and requires only to be worked, but strangers about to explore the northern