Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Elgin, and a Guide to Elgin Cathedral, Once Denominated the Lantern of the North: Together With Some Pious and Religious Reflections Within the Old Walls, Evoked by the Resident Spirit of the Ruins
The preface is, therefore, looked upon by the reader as the husk of the nut, which must be' peeled off and thrown away. Before he can get at the kernel; and is regarded by the writer as the tub thrown overboard to the whale to preserve the ship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.