Excerpt from The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 27: Illustrated and Published Monthly, April to September, 1915<br><br>On Sunday next I set off for the Highlands. A friend of mine accompanies me in my carriage to Edinburgh. There we shall leave it and proceed in a tandem (a species of open carriage) through the western passes to Inverary where we shall purchase shelties to enable us to View places inaccessible to vehicular conveyances. On the coast we shall hire a vessel and visit the most remarkable of the Hebrides; and if we have time and favourable weather, mean to sail as far as Iceland, only 300 miles from the northern extremity of Caledonia. To peep at Hecla.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.