Download or read book The New Book of Bon-Accord, Or Guide to the City of Aberdeen (Classic Reprint) written by William Cadenhead and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New Book of Bon-Accord, or Guide to the City of Aberdeen I shall not trouble the tourist with the enquiry, whether Aberdeen be the modern representative of the town known to the Romans as Devana, (this idea, I think is fairly negatived by Rev. Mr. Michie in his Loch nor endeavour to decide which of the many derivations offered by etymologists for the name of our good city is the correct one. With authentic documents, giving it an antiquity sufficient to satisfy any moderate desires, it would be useless to venture upon the tender ground of tradition or fable. 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.