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$06 A JOURNEY TO THE
rocks, but attend their agriculture and
their dairies, without liftening to American
feducements.
There are Tome however who think that
this emigration has railed terrour difpro-
portionate to its real evil j and that it is
only a new mode of doing what was always
done. The Highlands, they fay, never
maintained their natural inhabitants ; but
the people, when they found themfelves
too numerous, inftead of extending culti¬
vation, provided for themfelves by a more
compendious method, and fought better
fortune in'other countries. They did not
indeed go away in colledtive bodies, but
withdrew invifibly, a few at a time ; but
the whole number of fugitives was not lefs,
and the diffeience between other times and
this, is only the fame as between evapora¬
tion and effufion.
This is plaufiblc, but I am afraid it is
not true. Thefe who went before, if they
were
rocks, but attend their agriculture and
their dairies, without liftening to American
feducements.
There are Tome however who think that
this emigration has railed terrour difpro-
portionate to its real evil j and that it is
only a new mode of doing what was always
done. The Highlands, they fay, never
maintained their natural inhabitants ; but
the people, when they found themfelves
too numerous, inftead of extending culti¬
vation, provided for themfelves by a more
compendious method, and fought better
fortune in'other countries. They did not
indeed go away in colledtive bodies, but
withdrew invifibly, a few at a time ; but
the whole number of fugitives was not lefs,
and the diffeience between other times and
this, is only the fame as between evapora¬
tion and effufion.
This is plaufiblc, but I am afraid it is
not true. Thefe who went before, if they
were
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| Antiquarian books of Scotland > Scotland/Scots > Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland > (314) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/110072849 |
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| Description | By Doctor Samuel Johnson. |
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| Shelfmark | ABS.1.76.225 |
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| Description | Thousands of printed books from the Antiquarian Books of Scotland collection which dates from 1641 to the 1980s. The collection consists of 14,800 books which were published in Scotland or have a Scottish connection, e.g. through the author, printer or owner. Subjects covered include sport, education, diseases, adventure, occupations, Jacobites, politics and religion. Among the 29 languages represented are English, Gaelic, Italian, French, Russian and Swedish. |
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