The Moor and the Loch: Containing Practical Hints on Most of the Highland Sports, and Notices of the Habits of the Different Creatures of Gam

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Moor and the Loch: containing practical hints on most of the Highland sports, and notices of the habits of the different creatures of game and prey in the mountainous districts of Scotland; with an essay on loch-fishing. [With plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Colquhoun, John; 1840. ii, ii, 128 p.; 8 . 808.ff.5. Contributor Bio:  Colquhoun, John Colquhoun, John (1748 - 1827), CofS minister and author. Born in the parish of Luss (Dunbartonshire), Colquhoun attributed his conversion to the answer to the Shorter Catechism's question, 'What is effectual calling?' Referred by a teacher to Thomas Boston's* Fourfold State, he began an acquaintance with Boston's writings which continued throughout his life. He studied at the University of Glasgow, was ordained to the New Church (St John's), South Leith, in 1781 and remained there until his death. He was a popular and influential evangelical preacher, whose sermons and writings reflect in great measure those of the Marrow brethren. In advising the many students of divinity who frequented his ministry, he declined to recommend The Marrow of Modern Divinity, as the General Assembly had condemned it. But Boston's notes to the Marrow were not so condemned, and these he warmly recommended. Colquhoun's works, all intensely practical, were widely influential: A Treatise of Spiritual Comfort (E, 1813; 1822); A Treatise on the Law and the Gospel (E, 1816; 1819); A Treatise on the Covenant of Grace (E, 1818); A Catechism for the Instruction and Direction of Young Communicants (E, 1821; 1838); A Treatise on the Covenant of Works (E, 1821); A View of Saving Faith (E, 1824); A Collection of the Promises of the Gospel (E, 1825); A View of Evangelical Repentance(E, 1825); Sermons, chiefly on Doctrinal Subjects [RAM: See here for details on the forthcoming republication of these sermons] (E, 1836), includes a brief memoir.