1742

From a FB post on Lochaber Archive Centre
In this letter, written by Lord Lovat to Lochiel in December 1742, Lovat describes the dreadful winter afflicting the Scottish Highlands. He writes

"The weather is severe here & the frost more intense than can be expressed. All our rivers are frozen so that coach & six & loaded carts might gallop over them. Our cattle suffer a great deal and it is even hard upon men's health…the frost is so very severe that hardly any human body can resist it long without being the worse of it." He asks God to have pity on, 'our old distressed mother Scotland', for 'she cannot be able to bear her burden very long…" (L/CL/B/6/25)


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