Excerpt from Travels: In the Western Hebrides: From 1782 to 1790 Mr. Humberftone Mackenzie, Captain Macleod of Harris, Mr. Macdoniald Of Boifdale, and a few other gentlemen of large efiates, they have given undoubted proofs of a difpofition to prote???'t the great body of the poor people againf'c their immediate fuperiors and opprelfors; by en ou raging general indufiry, which cannot exifi without liberty, or, in other words, without jufiice. But it too often, and ih deed for the molt part happens, that non refidence, and ...
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Excerpt from Travels: In the Western Hebrides: From 1782 to 1790 Mr. Humberftone Mackenzie, Captain Macleod of Harris, Mr. Macdoniald Of Boifdale, and a few other gentlemen of large efiates, they have given undoubted proofs of a difpofition to prote???'t the great body of the poor people againf'c their immediate fuperiors and opprelfors; by en ou raging general indufiry, which cannot exifi without liberty, or, in other words, without jufiice. But it too often, and ih deed for the molt part happens, that non refidence, and various avocations, on the part of the great landholders, afford Op portunities to the tackfmen, among whom their cftates are divided, by leafehold, in large lots, br rather difiri???ts, to conceal the real {late of affairs from the difiant chief, 'and to enter into foch combinations, as at once, in fa???'c, fruf'trate the good intentions of thofe chiefs, and defy the free genius of the Britifh conftitution. The land is parcelled out in fmall portions, by the tackfmen, among the immediate cultivators of the foil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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