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XXV. An Account of ancient Monuments and Fortifications in the Highlands of Scotland. In a Letter from Mr. James Anderson, to George Wilson, Esq; of Lincoln's-Inn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Nothing seems to be so well calculated for throwing light on the origin of nations, as an attention to the radical construction of the language of the people, and to the nature of those monuments of remote antiquity that have escaped the ravages of time.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1779

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page 246 note * Plate XXI.

page 254 note * Plate XXII.

page 255 note * See his account of them in a series of Letters to G. C. M. esq. just published in 8vo. with a plate.

page 256 note * See the plan Pl. XXIII. fig. 1.

page 258 note [a] What Dr. Borlase calls Hill Castles in Cornwall, and describes as fortified by single and sometimes double walls of stones, “ which now lie like a ridge of “disorderly stones,” seem to be of the same kind, though he says nothing of vitrification. Antiq. B. iv. c. 7. p. 343 2d ed.

page 261 note [b] See the Governor's Account of Penman Maŵr. Archaeol. vol. III. 303.