Yet It Is Necessary In These Countries, Where The Ejection Of A Tenant Is A Greater Evil, Than In More Populous Places, To Consider Not Merely What The Land Will Produce, But With What Ability The Inhabitant Can Cultivate It.

A certain stock can allow but a certain payment; for if the land be doubled, and the stock remains the same, the tenant becomes no richer.

The proprietors of the Highlands might perhaps often increase their income, by subdividing the farms, and allotting to every occupier only so many acres as he can profitably employ, but that they want people.

There seems now, whatever be the cause, to be through a great part of the Highlands a general discontent. That adherence, which was lately professed by every man to the chief of his name, has now little prevalence; and he that cannot live as he desires at home, listens to the tale of fortunate islands, and happy regions, where every man may have land of his own, and eat the product of his labour without a superior.

Those who have obtained grants of American lands, have, as is well known, invited settlers from all quarters of the globe; and among other places, where oppression might produce a wish for new habitations, their emissaries would not fail to try their persuasions in the Isles of Scotland, where at the time when the clans were newly disunited from their Chiefs, and exasperated by unprecedented exactions, it is no wonder that they prevailed.

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