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M. Michelet, the great
Continental historian, writes:- "The Scottish Highlanders will ere long
disappear from the face of the earth; the mountains are daily
depopulating; the great estates have ruined the land of the Gael, as
they did ancient Italy. The Highlander will ere long exist only in the
romances of Walter Scott. The tartan and the claymore excite surprise in
the streets of Edinburgh; the Highlanders disappear—they emigrate—their
national airs will ere long be lost, as the music of the Eolian harp
when the winds are hushed." |
