. The earth and its inhabitants ... ^ ^D If ^. ^^ ^ _^ 68. 95toR0per cent. Proportion of G>ielifi-*Peaking Inhabitant 50 to fk>per cent. in Gaelic, and of these only 49,000 are ignorant of English.* As to the Scandi-navians, not one amongst their descendants now speaks Old Norse. The greaternumber of them speak English, but many, too, have adopted Gaelic. In most of theislands the names of places are Danish, although Gaelic has for centuries been thet-poken language. Even in St. Kilda, remote as is its situation, an interminglingof Gaels and Northmen has been The use of
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ^ ^D If ^. ^^ ^ _^ 68. 95toR0per cent. Proportion of G>ielifi-*Peaking Inhabitant 50 to fk>per cent. in Gaelic, and of these only 49,000 are ignorant of English.* As to the Scandi-navians, not one amongst their descendants now speaks Old Norse. The greaternumber of them speak English, but many, too, have adopted Gaelic. In most of theislands the names of places are Danish, although Gaelic has for centuries been thet-poken language. Even in St. Kilda, remote as is its situation, an interminglingof Gaels and Northmen has been The use of Celtic was discon- * E. G. Ravenstein, On the Celtic ^nag s in the British Sands, Out of the World, or Life in St. Kilda. NOETHEEN SCOTLAND. 359 tiiiued at the court of Scotland about the middle of the eleventh century, and isdoomed to disappear. Far poorer in its literature and less cultivated than AYelsh,its domain diminishes with every decade, for English is now almost universallyspoken in the towns, and the Highland valleys are becoming depo
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