1. Cited in Eric Richards, The Highland Clearances (Edinburgh, 2000), p. 73.
2. NRS, GD/46/17/36, Lord Seaforth to Colin Mackenzie, 1 July 1811.
3. Stana Nenadic, Lairds and Luxury (Edinburgh, 2007), p. 209.
4. David Stewart, Sketches of the Character, Institutions and Customs of the Highlanders of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1822), p. 153.
5. Nenadic, Lairds and Luxury, p. 209.
6. Sir John Sinclair, General View of the Agriculture of the Northern Counties and Islands of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1795), pp. 111–12.
7. Cited in R. A. Dodgshon, From Chiefs to Landlords (Edinburgh, 1998), p. 242, quoting from NAS, GD46/17/55.
8. ‘A Supplement, Containing an Account of the Present State of Husbandry, and the Improvements recently introduced’, in Lord Kames, The Gentleman Farmer (6th edn, Edinburgh, 1815), p. 537.