On Tuesday, February 4, 1992 at 7:05:56 PM UTC-5, Tom Costello wrote:   
   > In article <1992Feb4.103134.18368@pcsbst.pcs.com>, billp@pcsbst.pcs.com   
   (Bill Potter) writes:   
   > stuff ommitted   
   > |> "A dance called America" which is about the forced emmigration   
   > |> from the Highlands during the time of the clearances. I had   
   > |> thought the title to be a clever bit of imagery, never   
   > |> myself thinking that it has a historical background.   
   > |>   
   > |> Last Friday I came across the following passage.   
   > |>   
   > |> 	   Three-fifths of the Highland proprietors were now absentee   
   > |> 	landlords, and their dispossessed or unwanted tenants were   
   > |> 	now dregs in the cup of their good fortune, The spirited   
   > |>   
   > |> 	   
   > more stuff omitted,	...   
   > |>   
   > |>         ... but figures given in a Parliamentary report of 1803 suggest   
   > |> 	that at least ten thousand people had gone from the Highlands   
   > |> 	and Isles in the previous three years. Upon each turn of the   
   > |> 	dance a hand was outstretched for a new partner, and the   
   > |> 	letters of the departed exiles called upon their friends   
   > |> 	to take ship and join them.   
   > |>         (from Mutiny, John Prebble, Penguin, 1977, pp441-2)   
   > |>   
   > |>   
   > |> Does anyone have the opporunity to look up the original Boswell   
   > |> and quote it here?   
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   > I really don't have any idea where this myth of the highland clearances   
   > comes from.  The emigration from Scotland at that time was constant   
   > accross crofters and townsfolk.  There were in total four "burnings"   
   > reported, at the time the so called clearances were taking place.   
   >   
   > Why do some people feel that they have to claim their ancestors   
   > went through great hardship, at the hands of oppressors, when   
   > in fact they didn't   
   >   
   > Just wondering,   
   >   
   > Tom   
      
   Jackass. Learn something before you spout off. You're lucky this is 25 years   
   old.   
      
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