 The crops are most precarious ; the poor are left to Providence's care. They prowl like other animals along the shore to pick up limpets and other shellfish, the casual repasts of hundreds during part of the year in these unhappy islands. Hundreds thus...  Journal of the Statistical Society of London - Page 508by Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1866Full view - About this book
 | 1857 - 628 pages
...casual repast of hundreds, during part of the year, in these unhappy islands. Hundreds of them only drag through the season a wretched life, and numbers unknown in all parts of the Western Islands [nothing local is intended] fall beneath the pressure, some of hanger, more of putrid fever,... | |
 | Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1866 - 696 pages
...written in 172G. Pennant, at a later period in the same century, speaking of Skye, says " the crops are most precarious; the poor are left to " Providence's...beneath the pressure, some of hunger, more of the putrid ferer, " the epidemic of the coast, originating from unwholesome food, " the dire effects of necessity.... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1879 - 228 pages
...you by any long reference to what he says, but will quote one well-known passage. " Hundreds annually drag through the season a wretched life, and numbers unknown in all parts of the Western Highlands (nothing local is intended) fall beneath the pressure, some of hunger, more of the putrid fever, the... | |
 | Sir John Scott Keltie - 1875 - 302 pages
...casual repasts of hundreds during part of the year in these unhappy islands. Hundreds thus annually drag through the season a wretched life ; and numbers,...hunger, more of the putrid fever, the epidemic of the coasts, originating from unwholesome food, the dire effects of necessity."i No change for the better... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1879 - 246 pages
...you by any long reference to what he says, but will quote one well-known passage. " Hundreds annually drag through the season a wretched life, and numbers unknown in all parts of the Western Highlands (nothing local is intended) fall beneath the pressure, some of hunger, more of the putrid fever, the... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1879 - 244 pages
...you by any long reference to what he says, but will quote one well-known passage. " Hundreds annually drag through the season a wretched life, and numbers unknown in all parts of the Western Highlands (nothing local is intended) fall beneath the pressure, some of hunger, more of the putrid fever, the... | |
 | Lord Colin Campbell - 1885 - 126 pages
...islands. Hundreds thus annually drag through the season a wretched life, and numbers, unknown, in -11 parts of the Western Highlands, fall beneath the pressure,...hunger, more of the putrid fever, the epidemic of the coasts, originating from unwholesome food, the dire effects of necessity." * The people were too poor... | |
 | Lord Colin Campbell - 1885 - 120 pages
...islands. Hundreds thus annually drag through the season a wretched life, and numbers, unknown, in -11 parts of the Western Highlands, fall beneath the pressure,...hunger, more of the putrid fever, the epidemic of the coasts, originating from unwholesome food, the dire effects of necessity." * The people were too poor... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1892 - 506 pages
...other shell-fish, the casual repasts of hundreds during part of the year. Hundreds annually dragged through the season a wretched life, and numbers unknown, in all parts of the Highlands, fell beneath the pressure, some of hunger, more of the putrid fever, the epidemic of the... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1892 - 402 pages
...other shell-fish, the casual repasts of hundreds during part of the year. Hundreds annually dragged through the season a wretched life, and numbers unknown, in all parts of the Highlands, fell beneath the pressure, some of hunger, more of the putrid fever, the epidemic of the... | |
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