Please pronounce Arkansaw, with the accent on the first. ↩

I had nearly finished the transcription of the following pages when I saw on a friend’s table the number containing the piece from which this sentence is extracted, and, struck with a similarity of title, took it home with me and read it with indescribable satisfaction. I do not know whether I more envy M. Theuriet the pleasure of having written this delightful article, or the reader the pleasure, which I hope he has still before him, of reading it once and again, and lingering over the passages that please him most. ↩

William Abercrombie. See Fasti Ecclesia Scoticanae , under “Maybole” (Part III ). ↩