Border Sketches (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Pennant says there were Sixteen Saxon clans in the Lowlands; and Sir Walter Scott remarks, probably with greater accuracy, that it would be a troublesome matter to enumerate them.

It is, however, certain that the system Of clanship prevailed on the Middle and Western Marches up to the period of the union of the crowns.

TO account for a fact which strikes one as SO anomalous, we need not go back to the period of the formation of the clouds and the laying Of the strong foundations Of the earth; but, nevertheless, the origin of the social organisation Of the Borderers, as we find it in the fifteenth century, is probably traceable to the period when this country first emerged from Obscurity into the realms Of history.

Looking around us at the present time on the most tranquil and pas toral Of districts, remote from the scenes which tempt the ambition and cupidity Of men, it seems hard to believe that when our country first received her name, and entered the community of nations, she did SO by what the French call the baptism Of fire.

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