Some, particularly in the Highlands and islands, were certainly poor, even destitute, and the clearances in the late 1840s and early 1850s were undeniably brutal and often coercive.

当然其中一些人尤其是高地地区和岛屿上的居民生活拮据，甚至有些一贫如洗，19世纪40年代末到年代初这些人遭到了强制性驱除，残酷程度不可否认。

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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.

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He said the Sutherland clearances were considered the most dramatic and best known of removals of families from land across the Highlands and Islands.

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