"The most handsome and complete Work of the kind which has ever been published in this country."—_Numismatic Chronicle_, Pt. IV., 1875.
"We have in these Records of the Coinage of Scotland, not the production of a _dilettante_, but of a real student, who, with rare pains and the most scholarly diligence, has set to work and collected into two massive volumes a complete history of the coinage of Scotland, so far as it can be gathered from the ancient records."—_Academy._
EARLY RECORDS RELATING TO MINING IN SCOTLAND.
"The documents contained in the body of the work are given without alteration or abridgment, and the introduction is written with ability and judgment, presenting a clear and concise outline of the earlier history of the Mining Industries of Scotland."—_Scotsman._
"The documents ... comprise a great deal that is very curious, and no less that will be important to the historian in treating of the origin of one of the most important branches of the national industry."—_Daily News._
"Such a book ... revealing as it does the first developments of an industry which has become the mainspring of the national prosperity, ought to be specially interesting to all patriotic Scotchmen."—_Saturday Review._
AUTHOR OF THE “SCULPTURED STONES OF SCOTLAND.”
1. Archæology. │6. Leprosy and Leper │ Hospitals.
3. The Cat Stane. │8. Was the Roman │ Army provided with │ Medical Officers?
4. Magical Charm-Stones. │9. Roman Medicine │ Stamps, etc. etc.
[Illustration: ANCIENT ORATORY IN THE ISLAND OF INCHOLM.]
"The (then) chief, journeying with his clan to join Brace’s army before Bannockburn, observed, on his standard being lifted one morning, a glittering something in a clod of earth hanging to the flagstaff. It was this stone. He showed it to his followers, and told [Illustration: Fig. 17. Clach-na-Bratach.] them he felt sure its brilliant lights were a good omen and foretold a victory—and victory was won on the hard-fought field of Bannockburn.
"From this time, whenever the clan was ‘out,’ the Clach-na-Bratach accompanied it, carried on the person of the chief, and its varying hues were consulted by him as to the fate of battle. On the eve of Sheriffmuir (13th November 1715), of sad memory, on Struan consulting the stone as to the fate of the morrow, the large internal flaw was first observed. The Stuarts were lost—and Clan Donnachaidh has been declining in influence ever since.