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Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland

by Holmes Daniel Turner

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Author: Holmes Daniel Turner

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...scientifically, and a loose andpopular description is of use only when the imagination is to beamused. "In spite of the menace of Fort-George, the Highlanders fondly cherishedthe memory of Charlie for many a year. To no subject even now do theirdescendants listen with such rapt attention as to his tragic story. Ihave heard indeed of a Highland minister who was so displeased at thehomage paid to the Prince's memory by some of his flock, that he threwat them the unanswerable question, "What will Prince Charlie do for youat the day of judgment?"I have had the curiosity to ask some of the Session Clerks of countryparishes that were in the line of the insurgents' advance or retreat, ifany references to the rebellion appear in the minutes of the year 1745. No references appear, as a rule, for that year; but, under 1746, thereare brief accounts of church discipline being exercised in the case of afew illegitimate births, --the paternity being ascribed usually to _anesodger_. [7]At Inverness...

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