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From: Peter & Sandra Beckett <>
Subject: The Clearances
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 20:45:39 +1000


Ian -
The infamous Highland Clearances were the reason (and the potato blight
didn't help either). John Prebble's book on the Highland Clearances
will tell you all you need to know.

>
> Can anyone direct me to information that caused so many people to leave
> (Mull and Scotland)in the first part of the nineteenth century.

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