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“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.”

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Book:Memorabilia Domestica: or, Parish Life in the North of Scotland

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