[410]. The last of late introduction. See Reports to Board of Agriculture: Central Highlands (1794), p. 21.
[411]. 2nd ed., p. 384; 7th ed., p. 229.
[412]. Not feudal but pre-feudal, or allodial. See Wealth of Nations, III. iv. 183, 1.
[413]. Wealth of Nations, ibid.
[414]. Selkirk, Highlands, 1805, p. 25.
[415]. See the Legend of Montrose, &c.
[416]. Adam Smith, l. c.; cf. I. viii 36, 1 (the often-quoted description of “half-starved highland women” with their twenty children in contrast to the “pampered fine lady” with few or none.)
[417]. Reports to Board of Agriculture: Central Highlands, 1794, p. 52.
[418]. Wealth of Nations, III. iv. 184, 1 (written 1774), a passage which shows that the clearances and the consequent cry of Depopulation are to be looked for as early as the middle of the century. We are sometimes told that from the ’45 to the end of the century was the golden age of highland farmers. But the willingness of the clansmen to enter Chatham’s highland regiments would hardly imply great contentment.
[419]. Cf. Essay on Pop., pp. 332 (2nd ed.), 227 (7th ed.), and Selkirk, l. c., pp. 43 seq. Contra, see Report of Crofters Commission, 1884, p. 51.