From Sutherland to Orkney : Stories of Clearance

'the increase of 71 is the settlement of a colony of Highlanders, who had been forced to emigrate from Strathnaver, where their farms were converted into sheep pasture.' - The Statistical Account of Scotland, Parish Walls and Flotta, Orkney . (1795 -98).

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