Periodical Criticism - 20 Author:Sir Walter Scott Volume: 20 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Original Publisher: R. Cadell Subjects: English literature Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Poetry / General Poetry / American / Gene... more »ral Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MISCELLANEOUS-CRITICISM. /y. ARTICLE IX. THE CULLODEN PAPERS. [From the Quarterly Review, for January, 1816: -- On " Culloden Papers; comprising an extensive and interesting Correspondence from the Year 1625 to 1748. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, containing Memoirs of the Right Honourable Duncan Forbes," $c. 4to. 1815.] Every thing belonging to the Highlands of Scotland has of late become peculiarly interesting. It is not much above half a century since it was otherwise. The inhabitants of the Lowlands of Scotland were, indeed, aware that there existed, in the extremity of the island, amid wilder mountains and broader lakes than their own, tribes of men called clans, living each under the rule of their own chief, wearing a peculiar dress, speaking an unknown language, and going armed even in the Vol. xx. A most ordinary and peaceable vocations. Thfi more southern counties saw specimens of these men, following the droves of caUle which were the sole exportable commodity of their country, plaided, bonneted, belted nftd brogued, and driving their bullocks, as Virgil is said to have spread his manure, with an"air of great dignity and consequence. To their Hearer Lowland neighbours, they were known- by more fierce and frequent causes of acquaintance"; by the forays which they made upon the" inhabitants of the plains, and the tri...« less