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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... tance of the object . Inasmuch , however , as it could be promoted by the disposal of waste lands of the Crown , I was in- formed that every reasonable encourage- ment might be expected . Seeing no pro- bability of 4 INTRODUCTION .
... tance of the object . Inasmuch , however , as it could be promoted by the disposal of waste lands of the Crown , I was in- formed that every reasonable encourage- ment might be expected . Seeing no pro- bability of 4 INTRODUCTION .
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... ment might be expected . Seeing no pro- bability of my views being effectually adopt- ed by Government , and reluctant to aban- don the object altogether , I was led to con- sider how far , under the encouragement held out , I could ...
... ment might be expected . Seeing no pro- bability of my views being effectually adopt- ed by Government , and reluctant to aban- don the object altogether , I was led to con- sider how far , under the encouragement held out , I could ...
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... ment the land will be most profitable to the occupier . To examine the Highlands of Scotland by this test , let us consider what are the other parts of the kingdom to which it bears most resemblance . If in If in any of the mountainous ...
... ment the land will be most profitable to the occupier . To examine the Highlands of Scotland by this test , let us consider what are the other parts of the kingdom to which it bears most resemblance . If in If in any of the mountainous ...
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... ment to all those in the Highlands , who can command any considerable capital , to en- gage in the same business ; and the remark- able rise that has taken place in the value of produce within the last few years , has led them to offer ...
... ment to all those in the Highlands , who can command any considerable capital , to en- gage in the same business ; and the remark- able rise that has taken place in the value of produce within the last few years , has led them to offer ...
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... , and dismissed . All of these have been hitherto enabled to live by possessing land at a rent below its value : directly or indi- rectly they are a burthen on the proprietors ; and unless some new and profitable employ- ment can be 36.
... , and dismissed . All of these have been hitherto enabled to live by possessing land at a rent below its value : directly or indi- rectly they are a burthen on the proprietors ; and unless some new and profitable employ- ment can be 36.
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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.