 | Spalding Club, Aberdeen - Scotland - 1859 - 584 pages
...any excuse of war, or popular rising, or faction-fighting — and when was such excuse wanting 1 — the country was soon covered with marauders, to whom...fire-arms seems to have added to the other causes of i Sir Hugh describes the thing after the Revolution troubles in 1691 (p. 386), putting one in mind... | |
 | William Grant Stewart - 1860 - 372 pages
...maintained a multitude of deer ; but it was not so. The deer being unprotected, killed out of season, driven about, and allowed no rest, were reduced exceedingly...famine, and every few years suffering the horrors of starvation. The introduction of fire-arms seems to have added to the other causes of their decay, more... | |
 | Cosmo Innes - Home economics - 1861 - 674 pages
...time the deer be lettin out of the parke, and (177-''). that .some one be appointed to wait upon ful booty, and that was preferred which could be moved...fire-arms seems to have added to the other causes of their decay, more than we should be prepared to believe. An Act of Parliament, so early as 1551, sets... | |
 | Agriculture - 1865 - 572 pages
...on its own legs. Even deer were stur«, arising from the state of the inhabitants of the Highland;, always on the verge of famine, and every few years suffering the horrors of actual starvation." Now, gentlemen, this is tr¡e picture drawn by Mr. Cosmo Inues, a man thoroughly acquainted with all... | |
 | Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1866 - 696 pages
...speak with authority on the matter, has said of the old inhabitants of the Highlands that " they " were always on the verge of famine, and every few years suffering " the horrors of actual starvation."* In corroboration of this remark, Mr. Innes has communicated to me a fact which throws a curious light... | |
 | Alexander Inkson McConnochie - Deer - 1923 - 372 pages
...very emphatic on the then position. Deer were so persecuted, by poachers doubtless, that they were " found only in the remotest fastnesses of the hills....years suffering the horrors of actual starvation." William Smith was born at Rhynuie in Strath Nethy ; he was known in Gaelic as Ulleam Ridhe-noamh. Poacher,... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1866 - 696 pages
...with authority on the matter, lias said of the old inhabitants of the Highlands that " they " were always on the verge of famine, and every few years suffering " the horrors of actual starvation."* In corroboration of this remark, Mr. limes has communicated to me a fact which throws a curious light... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1883 - 1114 pages
...speak with authority on the matter, has said of the old inhabitants of the Highlands that ' they were always on the verge of famine, and every few years suffering the horrors of actual starvation.' a The condition even of some of the counties which are now among the richest in Scotland was at one... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1920 - 520 pages
...brought to the verge of a great catastrophe. There were intermittent periods of great misery and want. ' Always on the verge of famine and every few years suffering the horrors of starvation ' — such is the verdict of that judicious historian, Mr Cosmo Inues. Emigration, indeed,... | |
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... country was soon covered with marauders, to whom everything was lawful booty, and that was preferred .which could be moved off on its own legs.1 The pasture, unused by sheep or cattle, ought to have maintained a multitude of deer : but it was not... 