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3c6 A JOURNEY TO THE
rocks, but attend their agriculture and their
dairies, without liftening to American fe-
ducements.
There are fome however who think that
this emigration has raifed terrour difpro-
portionate to its real evil ; and that it is
only a new mode of doing what was always
done. The Highlands, they fay, never
maintained their natural inhabitanis ; but
the people, when they found themfelvea
too numerous, inftead of extending culti-
vation, provided for thcmfelves by a more
compendious method, and fought better
fortune in other countries. They did not
indeed go away in colledive bodies, but
withdrew invifibly, a few at a time ; but
the whole number of fugitives was not lefs,
and the difference between other times and
this, is only the fame as betv*'een evapora-
tion and effufion.
This is plaufible, but I am afraid it is
not true. Thofe who went before, if they
v/ere

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Journey to the western islands of Scotland
DescriptionLondon: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1775.
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