Author: John Galt

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780484285490

Excerpt from Annals of the Parish and the Ayrshire Legatees John galt, the future author of the Annals of the Parish, and of other works which deservedly give him a place among the Scottish Classics, was born at Irvine in Ayrshire, on the 2d May 1779. In his early childhood he was of a feeble and delicate, or rather sensitive, constitution, although his com plaints never assumed any serious form. His earliest instructions in reading were given at. Home; and, until his tenth year, he was regularly carried with the rest of his family to Greenock, in which town a part of every season was spent. 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.