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Sir Walter Scott writes:-
"In too many instances the Highlands have been drained, not of their
superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants,
dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will be one day found to
have been as shortsighted as it is unjust and selfish. Meantime, the
Highlands may become the fairy ground for romance and poetry, or the
subject of experiment for the professors of speculation, political and
economical. But if the hour of need should come—and it may not, perhaps,
be far distant—the pibroch may sound through the deserted region, but
the summons will remain unanswered." |
