ON THE

SUPERSTITIONS

OF THE

IGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GAELIC;

AND

ITERS CONNECTED WITH THOSE FORMERLY
PUBLISHED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

Y THE AUTHOR OF "LETTERS FROM THE MOUNTAINS."

A land of apparitions-empty shades.YOUNG.

I recommend, though at the risk
Of popular disgust, yet boldly still,
The cause of piety, and sacred truth,

And virtue, and those scenes which God ordained
Should best secure them, and promote them most
Scenes that I love, and with regret perceive
Forsaken, or through folly not enjoyed.-CowPER.

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DEDICATION.

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SIR WALTER FARQUHAR, BART..

DEAR SIR,

THOUGH I Well know that the recol-. lection of your native land will ever be dear to you, though the manners and opinions that are about to pass away, and mingle with the things that have been, still retain an interest for you,and though I should feel pleasure in awakening that interest,-these are not. the motives of this address. I know not that I ought, (even though I had the power,) to withdraw your attention from the weighty concerns which continually

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