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The Cottars of the Glen; Or, a Glimpse of the Rural Life of the Scottish Peasantry a Hundred Years Agone - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1866 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. Storms--Thunder--Rain--Snows--Deluges--Dangerous travelling--Crawland--Saunders and his associates--James Burns, the smith--Peter, the weaver--Andrew, the tailor--Henry, the cobbler. In the days of the people of the glen about whom we are writing, storms unknown to us were frequent. The great alteration that has taken place in this respect has been attributed to various causes, the chief of which is supposed to be the extensive draining of the hills and moorlands throughout the country, for the purpose of carrying off the superfluous moisture, and thus producing a dryness and clearness in the air unknown to former times. But however this may be, the thing is certain that the storms of other days were much more heavy and continuous than at present. The locality around the glen, studded with lofty mountains, was often visited by severe weather. In the dead of winter the snow-storms were sometimes terrific, covering the whole district with a sheet of the purest whiteness several feet in depth. The flocks and herds were in some cases nearly exterminated, and many of the moorland farmers were ruined. What falls in rain, now-a-days, fell then, for the most part, in snow; and then on the freshening, some months after, the melting of the snow and the rain from the clouds flooded the plains to an unwonted depth; the burns and streamlets, rushing with impetuosity to the lower parts, tore the soil and gravel from the steep sides of the hills, and covered all in confusion on the level ground beneath. Hence the deep ruts and scars on the face of the precipitous heights everywhere around. But if the snow-storms were severe, the thunderspates were equally so. In the high days of summer, when the electrified clouds gathered around the summits of the higher em...
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