Indeed, with the exception of a few reprints between 1702 and 1725 of the Synod of Argyll’s Psalter and Catechism, and Kirke’s Irish version of the Bible and Vocabulary in 1690, Lhuyd’s Vocabulary in Nicholson’s _Historical Library_, 1702, and Macdonald’s, 1741, there were no additions to the printed list of the Highlands till Baxter’s _Call to the Unconverted_ was issued in Gaelic in 1750, Macdonald’s _Songs_ in 1751, and David Mackellar’s _Hymns_ in 1752. These two latter volumes were the early precursors in type of that considerable output of song and hymn and story with which we have been familiar in later years. After them came, in 1752, a small book entitled _Hymn of Praise_ (English and Gaelic), Willison’s _Mother’s Catechism_, and next year Macfarlane’s _Translation of the Psalms, with forty-five of the Paraphrases_. Between 1753 and 1767, Reid could not find that any Gaelic work was printed, with the exception of reprints of the Mother’s and Shorter Catechisms and Macdonald’s songs. Like some slow-moving stream, the output was at first very feeble and irregular, and drawn for the most part from imported sources. In 1767, however, an event occurred in the Gaelic printing world worthy of special notice. This was the issue of the New Testament for the first time in the language of the Highland people. It was translated by Stewart of Killin, with the assistance of Dugald Buchanan and other eminent Gaelic scholars, and was published by the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge. Strange to say, the language of this translation was looked upon at that period as perfectly free from Irish idiom, and yet in Reid’s day, half a century later, it was regarded as savouring more of Irish than of Gaelic. The same year in which the New Testament saw the light in the ancient dialect there appeared also the celebrated hymns of Dugald Buchanan, and the year after the no less famous songs of Duncan Ban Macintyre. As yet no Bible existed in the language of the Highlands, and attention having been drawn to this fact, the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge set themselves to supply the defect. It was arranged to have the Old Testament translated and issued in four parts, which were ultimately published in Edinburgh as follows:— Part I. in 1783. Part IV. in 1786. Part II. in 1787. Part III. in 1801. The first part contained the Pentateuch, to which was prefixed a vocabulary of five pages and general rules for reading the Gaelic language. The second comprised from Joshua to the end of 1 Chronicles. The third, published last, contained 2 Chronicles and on to the end of the Song of Solomon. The fourth was made up of the Prophets, and to it was prefixed an advertisement, stating the use that had been made of various English translations.