O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, SCOTT. PREFACE. HE ILLUSTRATIONS in this volume are solely the work of the eminent Artist whose name they bear. They have been drawn from direct observation and from nature, and they are intended as far as possible to illustrate the more picturesque side of the landscape scenery of Scotland. The text will speak for itself. It has been selected from the poetical works of three strongly national Poets -Scott, Burns, and Ramsay. Whatever the distinct and individual merits of these Poets may be, it may be said of them, that they have all at least vied with each other in describing the beauties and singing the glories of their native land. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. ENGRAVED BY R. PATERSON. LAND OF THE MOUNTAIN AND THE FLOOD, . SMAILHOLM TOWER, LINLITHGOW PALACE, EDINBURGH FROM THE BRAID HILLS, TANTALLON CASTLE, MOUNTAIN SCENE, THE TROSACHS, LOCH KATRINE, THE SILVER STRAND, PASS OF BEAL-NAM-BO, THE HERO'S TARGE, A MOORLAND SCENE, GLENCOE, LOCH CORUISK, SKYE, FINGAL'S CAVE, STAFFA, IONA CATHEDRAL, LOCH RANZA, ARRAN, NEIDPATH CASTLE, 66 WHEN TUMBLING BROWN, THE BURN COMES DOWN," 66 WHYLES OWRE A LINN THE BURNIE PLAYS," A WINTER NIGHT, |