The Clearances

[JS Sanders]

Nick,
The Hebrides were cleared along with much of the Highlands and the inhabitants replaced with sheep and sometimes deer for sportsmen. Over 40,000 were evicted on Skye alone.

I spent a good portion of a trip to Scotland there. The Outer Hebrides look much like the moon in places, only wetter.

It's bleak and the hills are little but scorrie covered, but as Buzz Aldrin described the moon's surface, it's "magnificent desolation".

Slainte,
steve