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Title: An introductory history of England
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934
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Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o rapidly not to foreshadow some changein these beautiful conditions. The development ofagriculture, forestry and commerce went on with giantstrides. Banks were established in country towns.Rich East India merchants and Glasgow-Virginia tradersbought land and cultivated it scientifically, and Scottishfarming and gardening began to be held up as an examplein England. Linen, woollen and thread manufacturesflourished apace, the famous Carron ironworks, wheregrew the carronades for Nelsons fleets, were openedin 1760, the Forth and Clyde Canal was opened in 1778.A few years before this James Watt had patented anoisy machine which he called a Steam-Engine ; itwas a more successful one than Prince Ruperts. Insuch a society as this Adam Smith, the father of FreeTrade, wrote his Inquiry into the Causes of the Wealthof Nations, and into such a society Robert Burns andWalter Scott were born. At the end of the centuryGlasgow counted 90,000 souls ; the population of the w m j CO n NN J! 5 m f w z,
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j THE NEW SCOTLAND 281 whole kingdom of Scotland was one and a half millions,and the revenue had risen in a hundred years from£160,000 to £8,160,000. Much, however, was going to pass away; the frugal,stern life, the homely Lallan tongue (the purestTeutonic dialect in the world), would vanish as richesand intercourse with other Nations increased. Thenew landlords in the Highlands grew sheep and beastsrather than men, and the men had to go. SergeantMore Macalpin, returning covered with glory from fortyyears service in George III.s wars, was very apt tofind, on his return to his native glen, the fires quenchedon thirty hearths, and of the cottage of his fathers buta few rude stones. He turned his eyes longingly towardsCanada, whither all of his race seemed to have gone ;he even started on the journey, but, as we know, henever got farther than Gandercleuch ; and there, onmany a Sabbath morning, we may believe that his heart,and sister Janets beside him, swelled to the noble wordsof the

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