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SOME LATER EVENTS 183
There was no remunerative employment in the country
for the population, and it was impossible to develop any
industries which would support the people. The only
thing that could be done was to remove a large propor-
tion of the people to some country which would furnish
them with employment.
Mainly as the result of the famine the population of
Skye has fallen from 29,000 in 1851 to 11,000 at the
present day.

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Macleods of Dunvegan from the time of Leod to the end of the seventeenth century
DescriptionBased upon the Bannatyne Manuscript and on the papers preserved in the Dunvegan Charter Chest / by R.C. MacLeod.
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Matheson Collection
DescriptionItems from a collection of 170 volumes relating to Gaelic matters. Mainly philological works in the Celtic and some non-Celtic languages. Some books extensively annotated by Angus Matheson, the first Professor of Celtic at Glasgow University.
Early Gaelic Book Collections
DescriptionSelected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history.