This is a scan of a book about Prestonpans from the 1800's which I ran through an OCR
program to extract the text.  I haven't cleaned it up and there would be several months
of work needed to recreate a readable e-book from it, but it *is* quite readable even
in this rough format.  I'm putting it online here for folks from Prestonpans to read
and I may find myself cleaning it up for publication slowly when I have an idle hour.

Fortunately the typesetting conventions used in this book are very similar to those
used by my great grandfather, John Stirling, who was a printer in Bathgate, used, and I
have previously restored several of his publications, so I already have the typesetting
software to hand that would allow me to recreate this book electronically in a reasonable
approximation to the original style, should I find enough time to do so.