Excerpt from Place-Names of ScotlandIn his work of revision and addition the writer has received most valuable help in many ways. Of printed material he has found very useful the Inverness Gaelic Society's Proceedings, where the papers of Messrs Hector Maclean, Colin Livingstone, Mackay of Hereford, and others contain much that is helpful and suggestive, though often to be used with caution. The place-names of Strathbogie, by the late Mr James Macdonald, is a very thorough piece of work, which was issued just too late to be used in the first edition. Sir Herbert Maxwell's Scottish land-names, his Bhind lectures for 1894, is also a thorough piece of work, which somehow has not received the approbation which it deserves. The writer has to acknowledge very considerable help received through private correspondence with the Bhind Lecturer. The lists of old forms of names have been enriched and corrected from many sources, notably the Coldingham Charters, the oldest authentic Scottish charters we have, whilst several valuable early forms have been taken from the History of St Cuthbert, which, with the exception of Adamnan's Columbia, is just about the oldest Scottish writing we now possess.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.