Excerpt from The Poetical Works of the Late Hugh Macdonald: With a Memoir of the Author I have come from your native town, on a two-day's visit to Edinburgh; and as I have no one to introduce me, I take the liberty of sending you one of my humble productions, in the hope that it may Open a door in your Scottish heart, and let out the little boon I am so anxious fen - Yours respectfully. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.