DONEAN TOURIST: GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLES, CASTLES, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, FAMILIES, WITH THEIR ORIGIN, ARMORIAL ENSIGNS, BADGES OF DISTINCTION, CAREFULLY SELECTED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES; And interspersed with ANECDOTES, AND ANCIENT NATIONAL BALLADS, The frosty nicht with her prolixit hours, Thair greit manheid, wisdom, and hie honours, Evergreen. BY ALEXANDER LAING, AUTHOR OF THE CALEDONIAN ITINERARY, ECCENTRIC MAGAZINE, &c. &c. ABERDEEN: PRINTED BY J. BOOTH, JUN. AND SOLD BY THE AUTHOR. 1828. (Price Ten Shillings and Sixpence Boards.) کا ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES OCHONCHAR FORBES, LORD FORBES, OF CASTLE FORBES, BART. LIEUTENANT GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES, AND COLONEL OF THE 21ST REGT. OF FOOT, OR ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILEERS, &c. &c. &c. AS A SLIGHT BUT SINCERE TOKEN OF ADMIRATION OF HIS PHILANTHROPY AND RESPECT FOR HIS TRULY LAUDABLE CHARACTER, AND AS A TESTIMONY OF GRATITUDE FOR HIS LIBERALITY AND FRIENDSHIP, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED, CUM PERMISSIONE, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S MOST OBESSIANT SERVANT, THE EDITOR. |