Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland, Vol. 1: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland, Vol. 1: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments

Sumed to offer opinions, probably not always agree. Able, nor suited to many preconceived notions respecting the character, capability, and condition of the Highlanders. Any literary inaccuracies or defects which the more learned reader may disco ver, proceed from the inexperience of a plain prac tical soldier, who passed twenty-five years of his life in barracks, in military quarters, and in camps; accustomed, perhaps, to notice passing events, and to exercise his memory, but without the least nu ticipation or intention of attempting to arrange his recollections in their present form. I have in fact been led on by circumstances to make the attempt, without any premeditated plan. My statements, however, are grounded on authentic documents; on communications fi'om people in whose intelli gence and correctness I place implicit confidence; on my own personal knowledge and observation; and on the mass of general information, of great credibility and consistency, preserved among the.

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