...Nearly half a century ago; this keen observer of man remarked with regret, — ' We came ' hither <oo late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar...appearance, and a system of antiquated life: the clans re* ' tain little now of their original character; of whai tiu-y had ' before the late conquest of...

...Africa or America. Dr. Johnson went thither under the same impression. " We came thither," says he, " too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life ;" — " a longer journey than to the Highlands must be taken by him whose curiosity pants for savage...

...quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late...independence is depressed, their contempt of government is subdued, and their reverence for thenchiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of...

...quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late...their original character ; their ferocity of temper is softned, their military ardour is extinguished, their dignity of independence is depressed, their contempt...

...Notwithstanding the novelties of their journey, Johnson said they had gone too late to the Hebrides to see a people of peculiar appearance and a system of antiquated life : " the Highlanders were fast losing their distinction, and hastening to mingle with the general community."...

...last remnant of feudal times had passed with the battle of Culloden, and JOHNSON himself says — " We came thither too late to see what we expected,...appearance, and a system of antiquated life." " The Highlanders are fast losing their distinction, and hastening to mingle with the general community."...

...quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late...expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of_ antiquated life_, The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper...

...14 J. Macpherson, An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland (Dublin, 1771), 197. We came thither too late to see what we expected,...of peculiar appearance, and a System of antiquated fife. The clans retain little now of their original character, their ferocity of temper is softened,...

...quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late...depressed, their contempt of government subdued, and the reverence for their chiefs abated. Of what they had before the late conquest of their country,...

...and Boswell made their famous tour, they found that they were already too late to see what they had expected, 'a people of peculiar appearance and a system of antiquated life'. In the whole of their tour, Johnson recorded, they had never seen the tartan worn. The law (of which...