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The Scotish Gael, or Celtic Manners: As Preserved Among the Highlanders, Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Inhabitants, Antiquities, ... Peculiarities of Scotland (Classic Reprint)
The Scotish Gael or Celtic Manners As Preserved Among the Highlanders Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Inhabitants Antiquities Peculiarities of Scotland - Classic Reprint Author:James Logan Excerpt from The Scotish Gael, or Celtic Manners: As Preserved Among the Highlanders, Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Inhabitants, Antiquities, and National Peculiarities of Scotland — The Scots' Highlanders are the unmixed descendants Of the Celts, who were the aboriginal inhabitants of Europe, and the first known colo hists o... more »f Britain. Slowly following the progress Of refinement, and assim ilating with their neighbors, it may soon be matter Of unavailing regret, that their language, their singular manners, and peculiar customs, Will have become extinct and unknown, save in the traditions of the people or the partial records of the historian.
This race, which for so many ages preserved inviolate its Celtic prin ciples and original habits, has already yielded to the powerful advance of modern civilisation, and has apparently lost more of its distinctive fea tures within the last century, than during all the previous lapse of time, from its first settlement in Britain. Tenaciously retaining their prim itive language, social institutions, and established usages, and inhabiting a romantic and picturesque country, in which they SO long preserved their independence, the Gael and their territories have become the oh jects of much curiosity, and the prominent place which they occupy in the national annals, heightens the interest which Scotland has so much excited.
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