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about 1849, and others were made by Mackinnon of Corry, 

 while factor for Grant, an earlier proprietor. One of the 

 witnesses here, Alexander Morrison, in reference to the Glen- 

 dale martyrs, ominously declared that, " The parties who 

 were the means of getting this Royal Commission for us, are 

 now suffering in prison, and we are quiet here ; but if we 

 don't get justice, we will go to prison ourselves, or else we 

 will sell our lives as dear as possible ! " 



GRISHORNISH, THE PROPERTY OF MR. ROBERTSON. 



Murdo MacLean, Crofter, Edinbane, said that "there 

 were plenty of evictions in Grishornish and Coishletter, 

 before the time of the late Mr. Macleod. Many of us 

 have seen the law-officers come and strip the roofs in Edin- 

 bane, and pour water down to extinguish the fires. The 

 people evicted mostly emigrated. They got no compensa- 

 tion. The land is now largely in the hands of Mr. Robert- 

 son, the factor." He " makes us twice a year build up a 

 dyke that keeps our own sheep out of our own grazings. 

 We have to submit to such things for fear of being evicted. 

 There is land we might get on the Grishornish estate, from 

 which crofters had been removed, such as at Coishletter, 

 which was cleared about twenty-nine years ago, when 

 Cameron was proprietor/' Proceeding eastwards we pass 

 through the estate of 



LYNDALE. 



Here all that was brought out in evidence amounted only 

 to the curtailment of hill pasture, which had then become 

 the universal practice, and the precursor to ulterior evictions 

 from the arable portion of the people's holdings. In 



