Note 175 — XII OLD TIMES AND NEW
Reading edition
We have another statement by Culloden: ‘From Perth to Inverness, and thence to the Western Sea, including the Western Islands, ... no part is in any degree cultivated, except some spots here and there in straths or glens, by the sides of rivers, brooks, or lakes, and on the sea-coast. The grounds that are cultivated yield small quantities of mean corns not sufficient to feed the inhabitants, who depend for their nourishment on milk, butter, cheese, &c., the product of their cattle.... Their habitations are the most miserable huts that ever were seen.’ Culloden Papers, p. 298.