Glen Tilt, near the Marble Lodge, [in Scotland], 1850. 'There was a road through the Glen before the Duke [George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl] was though he may have - which we very much doubt - a legal right to close it, the charge of churlishness, and a want of sympathy with the public feeling, still his wild be none the worse if an occasional traveller were allowed to admire it without taking out a passport!...The example set by those princely-minded noblemen not afraid of any desecration from the feet of plebeians, is worthy of
Glen Tilt, near the Marble Lodge, [in Scotland], 1850. 'There was a road through the Glen before the Duke [George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl] was though he may have - which we very much doubt - a legal right to close it, the charge of churlishness, and a want of sympathy with the public feeling, still his wild be none the worse if an occasional traveller were allowed to admire it without taking out a passport!...The example set by those princely-minded noblemen not afraid of any desecration from the feet of plebeians, is worthy of in our crowded isles it may fairly be asked if any proprietor of land have a moral right to enclose a district as large as a county, and make a wilderness of it?...even peasants, to say nothing of tourists, have somewhat superior claims to those of the deer and the '. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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