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WEST FRONT OF HOLYROOD ABBEY CHURCH.
Bygone Scotland:
HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL.
Preface.
For a country of comparatively small extent,and with a large proportion of its soil inmoor and mountain, histories of Scotland havebeen numerous and well-nigh exhaustive. Thepresent work is not a chronicle of events in orderand detail, but a series of pictures from the earlierhistory, expanding into fuller narratives of themore striking events in later times. And itincludes portions of contemporaneous Englishhistory; for the history of Scotland can only befully understood through that of its larger andmore powerful neighbour.
The growth of a people out of semi-barbarismand tribal diversity, to civilization and nationalautonomy, is ever an interesting study. Thisgrowth in Scotland included many elements.The Roman occupation of Southe