Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland Made by Walter MacFarlane (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... on to Sibbald by Sir Robert's son, James Gordon, the Parson of Rothiemay, along with other material collected or compiled by himself and by his father. Out of the Sibbald Collections and the Scottish volume of Blaeu, the second volume of Macfarlane could nearly be compiled. There is no Article in it written by Macfarlane himself or by any one for his use. He mlls his Collections Geographical, but they include Articles that cannot te so described: --for instance, the Discourse anent the Government of Scotland before the late Troubles. The volumes of the Sibbald Collections in the Advocates' Library to which I shall have occasion to refer are four in number, namely (1) Topographical Notices of Scotland 34.2.8), (2) Collections for the Description of Scotland 33.5.15), (3) Repertory of Manuscripts (33.3.16), and (4) a. thin 4to book containing Descriptions of the Shire and City of Edinburgh (31.6.19). Macfarlane's And Sibbald's Collectioxs. It is a thing difficult of explanation how it happened that John Taitt, Macfarlane's transcriber, copied Descriptions and other things out of the Sibbald Collections without revealing 4 whence the copy was made.' He practically never does this. It is as remarkable a thing that Macfarlane allowed such copies, with no indication of their origin or date, to pass into his Collections. It seems, however, to be a somewhat frequent feature of such Collections to have this form of defect. It appears with frequency in the poorly-arranged Sibbald Collections; but the items there are often in scripts that are known to be those of men engaged in writing Scottish topographical Descriptions, and this, with internal evidence, is often sufficient to determine the authorship and date. It has been a work of some size and difficulty to make ...