Excerpt from The Waverly Anecdotes, Vol. 1: Illustrative of the Incidents, Characters, and Scenery, Described in the Novels and Romances, of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
In no other part of the civilized world are the multiplicity of objects so calculated to invite poetic, romantic, or picturesque description, as the
"Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood!
and, although these have met with their share of attention, local and general manners have been too frequently neglected or commingled with the caricature of romance itself, to convey adequate impressions of their real existence, either of the past, or during the present period. Had we a particular account of the manners of Scotland, and the changes that have taken place, from time to time, since the era of William the Conqueror, no history could be more entertaining.
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