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Legendary Tales of the Highlands (Volume 3 of 3) / A sequel to Highland Rambles

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The collection presents a series of Highland legends and anecdotes that weave vivid rural description, local character sketches, and episodes tied to the Jacobite uprising. It ranges from a soldier’s adventurous exploits and domestic life on a Nairnshire farm to accounts of military justice and post-battle cruelties, plus visionary and folkloric tales. The narratives alternate conversational storytelling and formal recitation, portraying loyalty, community customs, humor, and pathos, and emphasize landscape, oral tradition, and the personal consequences of political conflict.

EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY T. CONSTABLE,
PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.

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This book is volume III of a three-volume set, which appeared in 1841. Volume I is also available in Project Gutenberg as eBook number 58913; Volume II is eBook number 58931.

Scans of this work are available from the Internet Archive (Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3). The text is derived from these scans.

An 1881 edition in one volume appeared under the title Tales of the Highlands (copy 1, 2, 3). Because of the better scan quality, the illustrations of this edition have been used for this ebook, although they where also present in the first edition.

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N.A. Britai Britain 1
19, 165, 205, 207, 239 [Not in source] 1
36, 164 [Deleted] 1
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42 forgotton forgotten 1
58 .’ ’. 2
91 any any any 4
121 Did’nt Didn’t 2
126 canvass canvas 1
175 ! . 1
191 arm chair arm-chair 1
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228 And and 1
250 the the the 4
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313, 314 frieze frise 2
313 chevauz chevaux 1