Chapter I: Front Matter

THE HISTORY OF CIVILISATION IN SCOTLAND.

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THE HISTORY
OF
CIVILISATION IN SCOTLAND.

BY

JOHN MACKINTOSH, LL.D.

_Author of “The Story of Scotland,”
“The Revolution of 1688 and Viscount Dundee,”
“The Highland Land Question Historically Considered,” Etc._

_A NEW EDITION._

PARTLY REWRITTEN, AND CAREFULLY REVISED THROUGHOUT.

Volume Second.

ALEXANDER GARDNER,

Publisher to her Majesty the Queen,
PAISLEY, AND 26 PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON.

1893.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER XIII.