“This high-souled gentry and this noble and far-descended peasantry, 'their country's pride,' were set at naught and ultimately obliterated for a set of greedy, secular adventurers, by the then representatives of the Ancient Earls of Sutherland.” Highland ClearancesSutherland Book:Memorabilia Domestica: or, Parish Life in the North of Scotland Source: Memorabilia Domestica: or, Parish Life in the North of Scotland