Glen Albyn, Tales & Truths of the Central Highlands: Hardback: Folklore

Glen Albyn: Tales & Truths of the Central Highlands

By Anonymous.

Published by Abbey Press, Fort Augustus, c1930's. Hardback cover, 104 pages. Black & white illustrations and photographs.

CONDITION
Overall fair condition - see photos. Foxing to all edges, and a couple of pages front/back. All pages present. No names or writing.

An early writer, speaking of Fort-Augustus with its loch and Government galley, calls it the most centrical point of the Highlands or the " umbilicus'" of the North. Geographically this description is no doubt tolerably accurate; but until recently this centrical spot has been completely severed from all the cords that bind to civilisation and the south, unless indeed we except the tourist steamers of a well-known Glasgow company, which ply up and down the Caledonian Canal for some two months in the summer, and which are popularly termed - not without a sense of humour - " the swuft boats."

Within the last few years, however, this naval centre has been connected with the main arteries of traffic that run from London to Fort-William and Mallaig, on the extreme west coast of Inverness-shire, and as it is now becoming a favourite resort of holiday seeker, tourist, and sportsman, this booklet is written to try to enhance the  pleasure of a visit to the district.

In these pages it is in no way intended to enumerate all the Spots of interest in the neighbourhood, much less to give a complete history of the Great Glen; all that is aimed at is to jot down a few items in connection with the folklore, place. names, history, manners, customs, and superstitions of the country, which may be worth the attention of the stranger and help to while away an idle hour.

All description of scenery has studiously been avoided as containing a tacit insult to the reader, whom we may leave to judge with his own senses the beauties of the scene and nature's charms.

(Bindery shelvesA1)