Celtic scholars, if they find nothing else in the present Dictionary, will, at least, find a nearly pure vocabulary of Scotch Gaelic, purged of the mass of Irish words that appear in our larger dictionaries ; and, as for my countrymen in the Highlands, who are so very fond of etymologising, the work appears none too soon, if it will direct them in the proper philologic path to tread. With this latter view I have prefaced the work with a brief account of the principles of Gaelic philology.
