And what most men believe now is that Macpherson did really gather from among the people of the Highlands many scraps of ancient poetry and tales, but that he added to them and put them together in such a way as to make them beautiful and touching.
In a lonely Highland village more than a hundred and fifty years ago there lived a little boy called James Macpherson.
He heard the Highland battle-cry and the clash of steel on steel, for fighting came near his home, and his own people joined the standard of the Pretender.
He had also gathered together some pieces of old Gaelic poetry which he had found among the Highland folk.
Macpherson was no longer a poor Highland laddie, but a man of world-wide fame.
These grave and weighty councils were alternated by huge feasts and revels, like some of the old feasts described in
Highland castles.
"Have you ever read, in books about the Highlands, of such a thing as 'The Second Sight'?"
"I don't know what I might have done, if I had ever been in the Highlands," he said.
Every moment, also, he took off his
Highland bonnet, and performed a bow and scrape.
The
Highlands population boom is happening in its cities and towns, masking on-going problems, writes Lesley Riddoch.
The development, which was delivered in partnership with The
Highland Council, Scottish Government, Ark Estates, WGC (Scotland) Ltd and Trail Architects, forms part of a number of wider mixedtenure developments administered by
Highland Housing Alliance (HHA) in the
Highlands.
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