“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
“In Kildonan there is today a shadow, a chill of which any sensitive mind would, I am convinced, be vaguely aware, though possessing no knowledge of the clearances. We are affected strangely by any place from which the tide of life has ebbed.” Highland ClearancesSutherlandKildonan Book:Landscape and Light: Essays by Neil M. Gunn Source: Landscape and Light: Essays by Neil M. Gunn