Excerpt from Prehistoric Scotland: And Its Place in European Civilization, Being a General Introduction to the "County Histories of Scotland"From these inherent difficulties in connection with the selection and arrangement of the materials it is pleasant to turn my thoughts to those who have supplied me with so many beautiful illustrations, with out which the work would be shorn of much of its.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.