To Mr. Murray, of Albemarle Street, London; Mr. Vanx, of the British Museum; and Messrs. Black and Mess Chambers, Edin burgh, I am specially indebted for permission to copy woodents belonging to them. Individual woodcuts, from other sources, are acknowledged in the body of the work. To Mr. John Adam, the artist, who has executed the whole of the woodenta, with a few exceptions, I have to express my obligations for the spirit and artistic skill displayed in their axecution; and I do so with the more pleasure, that Mr. Adam is a native of Arbroath, and the son of a worthy elder of my own.
I have also acknowledgments of another kind to make. Consider ing the character of this work-a work that, from its very nature, required wide, and, at the same time, minute research, and the consultation of works of a very recondite character; and, taking also into view not only the very limited extent of my own library, but the distance of my abode from any of the great libraries of the land, where rare and expensive works may be consulted, the due prepara tion of such a work was attended with many difficulties The kindness of friends, however, has tended wonderfully to remove these difficultios. From all quarters I have met with the most disinter ested aid, of which I retain a grateful and pleasing remembrance. To enumerate the different sources whence help has come to me, in the prosecution of my task, would be impossible. There are three individuale, however, who stand out from the rest whom I cannot pass over without notice. Each of them has co-operated (and all spontaneously), though in different ways, in enabling me thus far to accomplish my task, and their aid has been of the most essential importance.
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