Mcian's Costumes of the Clans of Scotland: : Seventy-Four Coloured Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress by James Logan

There is no more extraordinary spectacle in Europe than that of the Gael of Scotland, who retain a language the most ancient and once the most widely diffused, and preserve the manners and customs which distinguished their ancestors in ages the most remote. Among all the habitudes which characterize this "peculiar people," none is more remarkable than the fond adherence to their primitive garb.

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