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A Publisher and His Friends

CHAPTER XI
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But the Highlands is an immense field, and it would have been much more easy for me to have made a sketch twice as long than to make it shorter.

There still wants eight or nine pages, which you will receive by tomorrow's or next day's post; but I fancy you will be glad to get on." The article on the "Culloden Papers," which occupied fifty pages of the _Review_ (No.

28), described the clans of the Highlands, their number, manners, and habits; and gave a summary history of the Rebellion of '45.
It was graphically and vigorously written, and is considered one of Scott's best essays..


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