Excerpt from The Place Names of West Aberdeenshire Had my uncle himself written this Preface, he would have thanked many friends, and also many whom he did not personally know, for services rendered at all the stages of the work. I do not know all who helped him, nor the value he set on the work of each: but I feel that I may, on his behalf, offer to all warm thanks for assistance courteously and ungrudgingly given, often at the cost of much labour. I am certain, however, that I should fail in carrying out his wishes if I did not ac knowledge in special terms the great debt he owed to Professor Mackinnon. In all his studies in place-names, both before and after the beginning of this work, my uncle constantly consulted him he looked on him as the one always trustworthy authority on Scottish Place N ames: and I doubt if he would have under taken the present work at all, had it not been for his advice and encouragement. 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.