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 4 PREFACE. Publisher to prepare the present edition, which he has prefixed a Biographical Memo(ir) of the Author, extracted from Chambers' Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Scotch men. He has also added a selection from the minor productions of Montgomery, which are only to be found in Dr Irving's Lives of the Scottish Poets, and Sibbald's Chronicle of Scottish Poetry—works so rare and ex- pensive as to be confined to the hands of a few. The orthography of a few of the more ob- solete and antiquated words has been modern- ised; and notes have been added, drawn from the best works on Mythology, explanatory of the Heathen Deities alluded to in the text.

A tradition is still current in this neighbourhood, that the prototypes of the Cherry and the Slae dwelt at a place, yet pointed out, in the parish of Tongland. KIRKCUDBRIGHT, APRIL, 1842.