The History of the Highland Clearances"In the nineteenth century many of the inhabitants of the Highland glens were cleared out, often by forcible eviction to make way for a more profitable tenant -- the Great Cheviot sheep. Families had to leave the homes where they had lived for generations. Thousands emigrated over the ocean in the hope of a better life ... The effects of it are still being felt in Scotland -- and in the countries where the unwilling migrants settled. Written while the effects it describes were still unfolding, Mackenzie's impassioned History brings the distress of the age unforgettably before the reader"--Back cover. |
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... inhabitants - Further Evic- tions - Terrible suffering during the winter of 1816 - Deseases introduced - Condition of the people generally , LETTER VII . Effect of Sellar's acquittal - The people become pros- trate - Renewed Evictions ...
... inhabitants - Further Evic- tions - Terrible suffering during the winter of 1816 - Deseases introduced - Condition of the people generally , LETTER VII . Effect of Sellar's acquittal - The people become pros- trate - Renewed Evictions ...
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Alexander Mackenzie. LETTER X. The inland inhabitants are driven to the rocky and barren sea - coast - Their wretched condition there - Iniquitous conduct of Lord Stafford's shepherds - Many of the people's remaining cattle and sheep ...
Alexander Mackenzie. LETTER X. The inland inhabitants are driven to the rocky and barren sea - coast - Their wretched condition there - Iniquitous conduct of Lord Stafford's shepherds - Many of the people's remaining cattle and sheep ...
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... inhabitants of that country lived comfortably and happily , when the mansions of proprietors and the abodes of factors , magistrates , and ministers , were the seats of honour , truth , and good example - when people of quality were ...
... inhabitants of that country lived comfortably and happily , when the mansions of proprietors and the abodes of factors , magistrates , and ministers , were the seats of honour , truth , and good example - when people of quality were ...
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... inhabitants in the most cruel and unfeeling manner , and burning the houses which they and their fore- fathers had occupied from time immemorial . The country was darkened by the smoke of the burnings , and the des- cendants of those ...
... inhabitants in the most cruel and unfeeling manner , and burning the houses which they and their fore- fathers had occupied from time immemorial . The country was darkened by the smoke of the burnings , and the des- cendants of those ...
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... inhabitants of that county , that , relying , I suppose , on his mere assertions , the proposed inquiry has never been carried into that district . Under these circumstances , I , who have been largely a sufferer , and a spectator of ...
... inhabitants of that county , that , relying , I suppose , on his mere assertions , the proposed inquiry has never been carried into that district . Under these circumstances , I , who have been largely a sufferer , and a spectator of ...
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Page 410 - Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 130 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 184 - the Universal Cause Acts not by partial but by general laws,' And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
Page 111 - Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
Page 411 - Came thro' the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred. When can their glory fade ? O the wild charge they made ! All the world wonder'd.
Page 379 - Enclosures they would not forbid, for that had been to forbid the improvement of the patrimony of the kingdom ; nor tillage they would not compel, for that was to strive with nature and utility...
Page 373 - I've mony day been ; For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more. These tears that I shed they are a...
Page 379 - 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...
Page 125 - I can state as from fact that, from 1811 to 1833, not one sixpence of rent has been received from that county, but, on the contrary, there » has been sent there, for the benefit and improvement of the people, a sum exceeding sixty thousand pounds.
Page 378 - Sarnia, and along the borders of our magnificent river ; upon the shores of Lakes Ontario and Erie — wherever the tide of emigration has extended, are to be found the final resting-places of the sons and daughters of Erin ; one unbroken chain of graves, where repose fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, in one commingled heap, without a tear bedewing the soil or a stone marking the spot. Twenty thousand and upwards have thus gone down to their graves.