A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. A NEW EDITION. LONDON: Printed for A. STRAHAN; and T. CADELL, in the Strand. Strand, O&. 26, 1785. SINCE this Work was printed off, the Publisher having been informed that the Author, fome years ago, had promised the Laird of Rasay, to correct, in a future edition, a paffage concerning him, p. 133, thinks it a juftice due to that Gentleman to infert here the Advertisement relative to this matter, which was published, by Dr. Johnson's defire, in the Edinburgh Newspapers in the year 1775, and which has been lately reprinted in Mr. Bofwell's Tour to the Hebrides: "The Authour of the Journey to the “Western Islands, having related that the "Macleods of Rafay acknowledge the chief"tainship, or fuperiority, of the Macleods of "Sky, finds that he has been mifinformed or "miftaken. He means in a future edition to "correct his errour, and wishes to be told of "more, if more have been discovered." |