Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of ScotlandEdinburgh University Press, 2002 - 601 pages "Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description. |
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Page 24
... taken of the affair , farther than the ex- amination of witnesses , whose depositions were taken down and signed . The head - quarters of the regiment which we were destined to join lying still a great way up the country , at a place ...
... taken of the affair , farther than the ex- amination of witnesses , whose depositions were taken down and signed . The head - quarters of the regiment which we were destined to join lying still a great way up the country , at a place ...
Page 331
... taken that day , at least all that were gotten . The greater number made their way by a steep rocky hill called the Ericle , where they left both the riders and the dogs far behind . But it being the first day of the chase that year ...
... taken that day , at least all that were gotten . The greater number made their way by a steep rocky hill called the Ericle , where they left both the riders and the dogs far behind . But it being the first day of the chase that year ...
Page 386
... taken it so deliber- ately , that he had buttoned his coat and folded his plaid , which he had laid beneath his head for a bolster . But it is now time to return to my notable literary society . In spite of the hideous appearances that ...
... taken it so deliber- ately , that he had buttoned his coat and folded his plaid , which he had laid beneath his head for a bolster . But it is now time to return to my notable literary society . In spite of the hideous appearances that ...
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