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2. M. Martin, A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland (2nd edn, ?1716).
3. D. Defoe, A Tour of the Whole Island of Great Britain (London, 1971 edn), p. 663.
4. Quoted in R. Mitchison, ‘The Government and the Highlands, 1707–1745’, in N. T. Phillipson and R. Mitchison, eds., Scotland in the Age of Improvement (Edinburgh, 1970), p. 31.
5. Allan I. Macinnes, ‘A’ Ghaidhealtachd and the Jacobites’, in David Forsyth, ed., Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites (Edinburgh, 2017), p. 165.
6. D. Stevenson, Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century (Edinburgh, 1980), passim.
7. Quoted in A. I. Macinnes, ‘Scottish Gaeldom, 1638–1651: The Vernacular Response to the Covenanting Dynamic’, in J. Dwyer, R. A. Mason and A. Murdoch, eds., New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland (Edinburgh, n.d.), p. 84.
8. Gentleman’s Magazine, IX, June 1739.
9. W. A. Speck, The Butcher (London, 1981), p. 183.
10. Cited in B. Lenman, The Jacobite Risings in Britain 1689–1746 (London, 1980), p. 281.
11. Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland in 1773 (Oxford, 1924 edn), p. 51.