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Excerpt from Gaelic Names of Beasts (Mammalia), Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Etc, Vol. 2 of 2: In Two Parts
IT was hoped at one time, that a Short preface to this work would have sufficed, but in order to Show properly the trend of the author''s intentions, it has had to be extended in the form of an introduction farther than might be otherwise thought necessary.
For a long time a treatise on the various subjects hereinafter dealt with has been a felt want, and the present work owes its existence to the efforts as after detailed to supply that want, ''as also the humble, but Sincere, desire to assist by placing even a small stone on the ever-increasing cairn of Celtic literature.
Alife-long love of Celtic subjects enabled material to be collected by me therefor from time to time, and the work might have seen the light several years ago, were it not that many persons were under the impression that the late Nether Lochaber intended writing a special work on Celtic natural history, than whom, indeed, no one was more capable. Alas he died without fulfilling that expectation, and the material for the present work is the labour of upwards of a quarter of a century, collected not only from an innate love of the subject, but in the hope that it might prove of some use in the event of such a work being undertaken by Nether Lochaber as above referred to. In the course of inquiries which were made as to this, and also as to whether Nether Lochaber had left any ms. Bearing thereon, it was suggested that as I had made the collection, it should form the basis of such a work, and great hopes were held out as to its ultimate educational success.
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IT was hoped at one time, that a Short preface to this work would have sufficed, but in order to Show properly the trend of the author''s intentions, it has had to be extended in the form of an introduction farther than might be otherwise thought necessary.
For a long time a treatise on the various subjects hereinafter dealt with has been a felt want, and the present work owes its existence to the efforts as after detailed to supply that want, ''as also the humble, but Sincere, desire to assist by placing even a small stone on the ever-increasing cairn of Celtic literature.
Alife-long love of Celtic subjects enabled material to be collected by me therefor from time to time, and the work might have seen the light several years ago, were it not that many persons were under the impression that the late Nether Lochaber intended writing a special work on Celtic natural history, than whom, indeed, no one was more capable. Alas he died without fulfilling that expectation, and the material for the present work is the labour of upwards of a quarter of a century, collected not only from an innate love of the subject, but in the hope that it might prove of some use in the event of such a work being undertaken by Nether Lochaber as above referred to. In the course of inquiries which were made as to this, and also as to whether Nether Lochaber had left any ms. Bearing thereon, it was suggested that as I had made the collection, it should form the basis of such a work, and great hopes were held out as to its ultimate educational success.
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.
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