The Scottish Highlanders And the Land Laws An Historico Economical Enquiry
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They accord- ingly surrendered the Cuillin holdings, and received in exchange the grazings of Earshadder, also on the main- land, on the distinct condition, however, that they should be allowed to retain these new grazings as long as they held their crofts and houses, which they were led to believe they might continue to possess, so long as they paid the rent with regularity, and behaved themselves with propriety. Now observe another gross iniquity perpetrated on these poor people. Had there be...en any generosity in the factor, or any fair play in the laws, every man leasing a deer forest, the four-footed inhabitants of THE BERNERA RIOTERS. 197 which might be an annoyance and an injury to the industry of the poor people adjacent, would have been forced, either at his own expense or at that of the landowner, to build a fence to protect the tillers of the soil from such unlicensed depredations. But as we have seen again and again, to our national shame, in the course of these inquiries, there was no law in the Highland hills for the poor man — all law for the rich.
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