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From: "Jane Macgillivray" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-INV-L] CULLODEN BATTLEFIELD: thoughts
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 15:25:45 -0000


Hi Simon,
I very much appreciated your remarks about Culloden. One's reaction about
much of the historyof the highlands is 'What a pity...' I think this about
the emigrations. Mark held not long ago that the country was not big enough
for everyone and in any case, land clearances or not, people would have had
to go. One could speculate that had Cromwell lasted another two years, the
industrial revolution would have occurred 100 years earlier. What a shame
that the Brits (Scots and English) were so attached to their dratted
monarchies; when they had nothing going for them either...Then the Scots
became attached to both the Stuart monarchy and the puritanical church,
strange bedfellows....The dice were loaded with bizarre numbers on the
downside.
The Enlightment past the highlands by. There was a fatalism that must have
been innate. Consider that Inverness, capital of the highlands, had (and
still has) no university!
Jane

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