Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland: With a View of the Causes and Probable Consequences of EmigrationLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - 223 ページ |
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... the rent it pro- duced , but by the men whom it could send into the field . It is mentioned indeed of one of the chieftains , that being questioned by a * See Appendix [ A. ] stranger as to the rent of his estate , he 13.
... the rent it pro- duced , but by the men whom it could send into the field . It is mentioned indeed of one of the chieftains , that being questioned by a * See Appendix [ A. ] stranger as to the rent of his estate , he 13.
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... duced to employ it all in the same man- ner . Their success has also attracted others from the South of Scotland . The more sagacious of the inhabitants of the country itself saw the benefits they might derive from a similar mode of ...
... duced to employ it all in the same man- ner . Their success has also attracted others from the South of Scotland . The more sagacious of the inhabitants of the country itself saw the benefits they might derive from a similar mode of ...
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... them in the colonies to begin as settlers , will be wasted in indolence at home ; and no effectual exertion of industry can be looked for from them , till they too are re duced to beggary . But is it possible to suppose that a policy , 82.
... them in the colonies to begin as settlers , will be wasted in indolence at home ; and no effectual exertion of industry can be looked for from them , till they too are re duced to beggary . But is it possible to suppose that a policy , 82.
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... duced as a resource for them , will feel their circumstances ameliorated in proportion to the growth of their industrious habits . Hav- ing little in their previous situation to excite feelings of regret , and animated by the prospect ...
... duced as a resource for them , will feel their circumstances ameliorated in proportion to the growth of their industrious habits . Hav- ing little in their previous situation to excite feelings of regret , and animated by the prospect ...
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... duced to deviate from their own intentions , would ascribe all these unforeseen difficulties to the peculiar disadvantages of the place they were settled in ; and if , under this im- pression , they had become disgusted , as might ...
... duced to deviate from their own intentions , would ascribe all these unforeseen difficulties to the peculiar disadvantages of the place they were settled in ; and if , under this im- pression , they had become disgusted , as might ...
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accustomed acres advantage afford agricultural allowed America antient appear Appendix arable land arising cattle causes chief chieftains circumstances clan colonies consequence consider considerable cotters crop cultivation degree difficulty dispossessed districts doubt duced employed employment England entirely established estates exertion expense farmer farms feel feudal fishing Fraserdale gentlemen gration habits hands Hebrides Highland Society immediate improvement induced industry inhabitants interest Inverness island Isle kelp kingdom labour landlord lord lord Lovat Low Country manner manufacturing means ment mode mountains natural necessity nerally Nova Scotia observed occupiers pasture peasantry peculiar pecuniary perhaps persons population possession principles procure produce progress proportion proprietors racter reason regiment render rent Ross-shire scarcely Scotland settlement settlers sheep sheep-farming situation small tenants South of Scotland South Uist spirit stances Strachur sufficient supposed tenantry tillage tion wages waste land Western Isles whole
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xix ページ - All their household stuff, which is very little worth, though it might well abide the sale: yet being suddenly thrust out, they be constrained to sell it for a thing of nought. And when they have wandered...
xiv ページ - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen ; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
xviii ページ - I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
xiv ページ - That all houses of husbandry, that were used with twenty acres of ground and upwards, should be maintained and kept up for ever; together with a competent proportion of land to be used and occupied with them...
xviii ページ - ... fraud, or by violent oppression they be put besides it, or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied, that they be compelled to sell all...
xviii ページ - They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities. For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men...
v ページ - Wherever we roved, we were pleased to see the reverence with which his subjects regarded him. He did not endeavour to dazzle them by any magnificence of dress : his only distinction was a feather in his bonnet ; but as soon as he appeared, they forsook their work and clustered about him : he took them by the hand, and they seemed mutually delighted.
xviii ページ - ... all into pastures : they throw down houses : they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse.
xix ページ - ... woeful mothers with their young babes, and their whole household small in substance and much in number as husbandry requireth many hands. Away they trudge, I say, out of their known and accustomed houses, finding no place to rest in.
xiv ページ - The king likewise knew full well, and in no wise forgot, that there ensued withal upon this a decay and diminution of subsidies and taxes ; for the more gentlemen, ever the lower books of subsidies.