McIan's Highlanders at Home

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Excerpt from McIan's Highlanders at Home: Or Gaelic GatheringsWho from the nature of their territories, and their warlike habits, are not easily conquered, he observes, that to the southern inhabitants of Scotland the state of the mountains and the islands is equally unknown with that of Borneo or Sumatra, of both they have only heard a little, and guess the rest. They are strangers to the language and the manners, to the advantages and the wants of the people, whose life they would model, and whose evils they would remedy. Never perhaps, he elsewhere adds, was any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands by the last conquest and the subsequent laws. True as this may be, much still remains of that system of antiquated life, characteristic of those who have not advanced beyond the primitive state in which mankind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.