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Frontispiece. J. F. C. |
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An ancient stand-up Dog-Fight, from a Cross at Dupplin |
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Belted Plaid. Ancient Highland Dress, from a Stone at St. Andrews |
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Figures from Grave-stones at Kilberry and Skipnish, in Argyleshire |
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Grotesque Figure |
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Dancing to Pipe Music. Highland Dress, 1829 |
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Figure from Holbein's Dance of Death |
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The Elk, from "Pontoppidan" |
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Sketch from Nature, made on the Tana River, Russia, 1850. J. F. C. |
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Direach ghlinn Eiti, or Fachan, as described |
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Highland Family Party returning from the Fair, 1829 |
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"The Great Sea-Serpent," "The Walrus," and "The Sea-Horse" |
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Grave-stones in Islay and at Skipnish |
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Highland Dress in 1560. From a Picture |
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"Irländers" (?) Mackay's Regiment, 1631. From a Print |
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Highland Dress in 1742. From a Book of Uniforms |
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Pipers and Peasant Boy. Highland Dress in 1848, from Nature |
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Bosses from St. Sebald, Nuremburg. Grammar of Ornament |
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Design from a Stone at Gavr Innis. J. F. C. |
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Interlaced Pattern from an Eastern Bronze |
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Design from a Hindu Bronze Vessel |
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Figure dressed in the Belted Plaid. From a Stone at St. Andrews |
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Figure, from a Hindu Bronze |
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A bit of Carnac, sketched in 1855. J. F. C. |
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From a Stone, found about 1830 under ruins in Loch Fionnlagain, Islay |
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Design from a Norse Powder-Horn |
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The Tail-piece. From an ancient Gaelic MS. |
I take this opportunity of thanking Mr. J. Stuart for permission to copy from his valuable work called "The Sculptured Stones of Scotland." The stones themselves are valuable records of the past, but liable to injury, and Mr. Stuart's work is carefully executed from drawings made from stones in particular districts. It is to be hoped that the work may be continued, for there are still great numbers of sculptured stones in Scotland which have not been drawn, and which are works of art. Many of these have been buried by sand drifts, broken through carelessness or mischief, or defaced and spoilt within the last twenty years. One ancient chapel was made a piggery, and some of the thin gravestones were rooted up and broken by these fat successors of the Culdees.