CHAPTER VI.
Medical Men. Sandy Wood. Knox. Nairn and Sir William Gull.
A broken leg in Canna. Changes in the professoriate
and students in the Scottish Universities. A St.
Andrews Professor. A Glasgow Professor. Some Edinburgh
Professors--Pillans, Blackie, Christison, Maclagan,
Playfair, Chalmers, Tait. Scottish Schoolmasters. 156–184
CHAPTER VII.
Old and new type of landed proprietors in Scotland.
Highland Chiefs--Second Marquess of Breadalbane; late
Duke of Argyll. Ayrshire Lairds--T. F. Kennedy of Dunure;
‘Sliddery Braes’; Smith of Auchengree. Fingask and
Charles Martin. New lairds of wealth, 185–204
CHAPTER VIII.
Lowland farmers; Darlings of Priestlaw. Sheep-farmers. Hall
Pringle of Hatton. Farm-servants. Ayrshire milk-maids.
The consequences of salting. Poachers. ‘Cauld sowens
out o’ a pewter plate.’ Farm life in the Highlands. A
Skye eviction. Clearances in Raasay. Summer Shielings
of former times. Fat Boy of Soay. A West Highlander’s
first visit to Glasgow. Crofters in Skye. Highland ideas
of women’s work. Highland repugnance to handicrafts, 205–238
CHAPTER IX.
Highland ferries and coaches. The charms of Iona. How to
see Staffa. The Outer Hebrides. Stones of Callernish.
St. Kilda. Sound of Harris. The Cave-massacre in Eigg.
Skeleton from a clan fight still unburied in Jura.
The hermit of Jura. Peculiar charms of the Western
Isles. Influence of the clergy on the cheerfulness of
the Highlanders. Disappearance of Highland customs.
Dispersing of clans from their original districts.
Dying out of Gaelic; advantages of knowing some Gaelic;
difficulties of the language, 239–273
CHAPTER X.
The Orkney Islands. The Shetland Islands. Faroe Islands
contrasted with Western Isles. ‘Burning the water.’ A
fisher of men. Salmon according to London taste. Trout
and fishing-poles. A wolf’s den, 274–293
CHAPTER XI.
Scottish shepherds and their dogs. A snow-storm among
the Southern Uplands. Scottish inns of an old type.
Reminiscences of some Highland inns. Revival of roadside
inns by cyclists. Scottish drink. Drinking customs now
obsolete, 294–320
CHAPTER XII.
Scottish humour in relation to death and the grave.
Resurrectionists. Tombstone inscriptions. ‘Naturals’ in
Scotland. Confused thoughts of second childhood. Belief
in witchcraft. Miners and their superstitions. Colliers
and Salters in Scotland were slaves until the end of the
eighteenth century. Metal-mining in Scotland, 321–346
CHAPTER XIII.
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