The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . il^AMJ) CHAP. > 111tribute i the Jacobite .,• ? I>e distributed aiI us residence in Glenoilowly. Every head)ld than was t-•ling to cheat botli bels and the go\.; .:> more embarra;^ war, not with Wilcment to which^ >oduce tranquillity,oney entrusted to Bread.;un tented chiefs, or should b-!e had upon thentensions of Glengarry e. eltie potentate was1 .unong the mountair ituated not du the sea which dcr Glencoe , sh lid separates Artar his house were tw three small ham The whole population w erned hundred souls. some
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . il^AMJ) CHAP. > 111tribute i the Jacobite .,• ? I>e distributed aiI us residence in Glenoilowly. Every head)ld than was t-•ling to cheat botli bels and the go\.; .:> more embarra;^ war, not with Wilcment to which^ >oduce tranquillity,oney entrusted to Bread.;un tented chiefs, or should b-!e had upon thentensions of Glengarry e. eltie potentate was1 .unong the mountair ituated not du the sea which dcr Glencoe , sh lid separates Artar his house were tw three small ham The whole population w erned hundred souls. some copse\lefile no sil; ? •? MiC Gaelic tor Glencr. truth that pass h most d . passes, the very V? ms brood Over it through ter pa le finest suit on those rare days v in the sky, the lies along a smLke )( ? in vain for the bark after rriile the only of mountain p iiear the sum-mark the headlooks in vain for1 a plaid, and lis r the bleatof a Iamb. iife is the faint cry of a bi. Melville, June -26. 1691 ; Tf. o w O o J3 o IX. ,692 WILLIAM AND MARY 2147 of pre\- from some storm beaten pinnacle of rock. The progress ofcivilisation, which has turned so many wastes into fields yellow withharvests or gay with apple blossoms, has only made Glencoe moredesolate. All the science and industry of a peaceful age can extractnothing valuable from that wilderness : but, in an age of violence andrapine, the wilderness itself was valued on account of the shelter whichit afforded to the plunderer and his plunder. Nothing could be morenatural than that the clan to which this rugged desert belonged should havebeen noted for predatory habits. For, among the Highlanders generally,to rob was thought at least as honourable an employment as to cultivatethe soil ; and, of all the Highlanders, the Macdonalds of Glencoehad the least productive soil, and the most convenient and secureden of robbers. Successive governments had tried to punish this wildrace: but no large force had ever been emplo
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