But without enough land in the highlands to support the growing population, settlements soon became an issue.

不过，高地地区并没有太多可耕种的土地，以支撑不断增长的人口，定居点很快变成一个难题。

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London had the worst of June's weather but in the Scottish Highlands it snowed.

在伦敦，人们经历了天气最为恶劣的6月，而在苏格兰高地，却下起了雪。

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They may seem less brutal than the events in the Highlands but the Lowland clearances were just as effective at displacing country dwellers: by 1820 an entire social class of cottars - peasant farmers who had a traditional claim on land in return for rent or service to a landlord and who made up a third of the population - simply disappeared.

BBC: Scotland's forgotten clearances

There is no doubt the market has slowed and that prices and speed of sales have been affected in the Highlands but it has not been hit as hard as other areas of the country.

BBC: Market 'not all doom and gloom'

But 25 ministers and their congregations (mainly from the west highlands and the islands but with support in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh) refused to go into the United Free Church.

BBC: A church born out of division