2 COEEACH-BAH ; OE, 



be made to fit this upstart of a house ; and many a knoll, 

 covered with its tangled brushwood, and blazing with the 

 yellow gold of the whin and the broom, must be levelled 

 and swept away, to convert the whole into an English 

 lawn.* 



In addition to this we have the new law of entail, which 

 will go a good way to destroy our famed nationality ; and 

 by introducing moneyed strangers who know nothing, and 

 feel less, of sympathy with the Highland character, will 

 (unwittingly, perhaps,) do all they can to extirpate it 

 altogether. It is melancholy to hear some "nouveaux 

 riches" at Radical meetings, spouting forth their untutored 

 volubility upon this (to me) painful subject " If the here- 

 ditary feudal lairds and lords cannot improve their estates, 

 they ought to sell them to those who can ! " to those 

 pioneers of civilisation, whose chief idea of a Highland 

 estate is that of a good bargain, and whose notion of raising 

 the Highland character consists in assimilating it to their 

 own ! They may give employment, f and money for 

 money's worth, but all their efforts will be unavailing to 

 transform the Gael into their beau ideal of a peasant ; and 

 never can they gain that place in his heart, only to be 



* " Fortunately for mankind, as some counterbalance to that wretched 

 love of novelty, which originates in selfishness, narrowness, and conceit, 

 and which especially characterises all vulgar minds, there is set in the 

 deeper places of the heart such affection for the signs of age, that the 

 eye is delighted even by injuries which are the work of time." 

 Modern Painters, by a Graduate of Oxford. 



f A great outcry has been raised against the " Highland clearances," 

 and much obloquy cast upon the proprietors of these remote islands and 



