re: #195 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Doing some genealogy tonight…

[Clip] After the English cleared the land of the Scots of actual Scots, so many of them ended up in the colonies.

Oh dear… It was Scots landowners who instigated the Highland Clearances, not “the English”. For most people living in the Highlands the best thing they could do was get out and go farm somewhere that wasn’t a forty-five degree slope of bracken and bog-moss over loose shale rock and if the local landowner was willing to pay for a ship to take you there, so much the better.