The History of the Highland Clearances
By Alexander MacKenzie (1914)

Contents

• Editor's Preface

• Introduction

• Sutherland

  • Alexander Mackenzie on the Clearances

  • The Rev. Donald Sage on the Sutherland Clearances

  • General Stewart of Garth on the Sutherland Clearances

  • Hugh Miller on the Sutherland Clearances

  • Mr. James Loch on Sutherland Improvements

  • Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe on the Sutherland Clearances

  • Reply to Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe by Donald Macleod

• Trial of Patrick Sellar

• Ross-Shire

  • Glencalvie

  • The Eviction of the Rosses

  • Kintail

  • Coigeach

  • Strathconon

  • The Black Isle

  • The Island of Lewis

  • Mr. Alexander Mackenzie on the Leckmelm Evictions

  • Lochcarron

  • The 78th Highlanders

  • The Rev. Dr. John Kennedy on the Ross-shire Clearances

• Inverness-Shire

  • Glengarry

  • Strathglass

  • Guisachan

  • Glenelg

  • Glendesseray and Locharkaig

• The Hebrides

  • North Uist

  • Boreraig and Suisinish, Isle of Skye

  • A Contrast

  • South Uist and Barra

  • The Island of Rum

• Argyllshire

  • The Island of Mull

  • Ardnamurchan

  • Morven

  • Glenorchy

• Buteshire

  • Arran

• Perthshire

  • Rannoch

  • Breadalbane

• Notable Dicta

  • The Rev. Dr. Maclachlan

  • A Highland Sheriff

  • The Wizard of the North

  • A Continental Historian

  • Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace

  • A French Economist

  • Mr. Joseph Chamberlain

  • Hardships Endured by First Emigrants

  • An Evicting Agent

  • An Octogenarian Gael

• Statistical Statement

  • Shoving the Population in 1831, 1841, 1851, 1881, and 1911, of all Parishes in whole or in part in the Counties of Perth, Argyll, Inverness, Ross and Cromarty, Caithness, and Sutherland

• Appendices

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