The History of the Highland Clearances
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Of all the old residenters, only one family remained upon the Island. The old and the young, the feeble and the strong, were all united in this general emigration the former to find tombs in a foreign land the latter to encounter toils, privations, and dan- gers, to become familiar with customs, and to acquire that to which they had been entire strangers. A similar emigration took place in 1828, from the Island of Muck, so that the parish has now become much depopulated. " In 1831 the populatio...n of the whole parish was 1015, while before that date it was much larger. In 1851 it was 916. In 1881 it was reduced to 550. The total population of Rum in 1881 was 89 souls.
Hugh Miller, who visited the Island, describes it and the evictions thus : " The evening was clear, calm, golden-tinted ; even wild heaths and rude rocks had assumed a flush of transient beauty ; and the emerald-green patches on the hill-sides, barred by the plough lengthwise, diagonally, and transverse, had bor- rowed an aspect of soft and velvety richness, from the mellowed light and the broadening shadows.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Of all the old residenters, only one family remained upon the Island. The old and the young, the feeble and the strong, were all united in this general emigration the former to find tombs in a foreign land the latter to encounter toils, privations, and dan- gers, to become familiar with customs, and to acquire that to which they had been entire strangers. A similar emigration took place in 1828, from the Island of Muck, so that the parish has now become much depopulated. " In 1831 the populatio...n of the whole parish was 1015, while before that date it was much larger. In 1851 it was 916. In 1881 it was reduced to 550. The total population of Rum in 1881 was 89 souls.
Hugh Miller, who visited the Island, describes it and the evictions thus : " The evening was clear, calm, golden-tinted ; even wild heaths and rude rocks had assumed a flush of transient beauty ; and the emerald-green patches on the hill-sides, barred by the plough lengthwise, diagonally, and transverse, had bor- rowed an aspect of soft and velvety richness, from the mellowed light and the broadening shadows.
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