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Excerpt from The History of Mary, Queen of Scots
Grampian Mountains in the north, and the Cheviot Hills in the south, as well as throughout the marshy lands which divided Scotland from England. From this period, there existed in this small kingdom two peoples, two languages, two states of society, two forms of organization. The old Celtic race kept to the mountainous country; the Germanic race of the anglo-saxons and Normans occupied the plains. The wild Highlanders, as they were palled, spoke Gaelic; the armed colonists of the Low lands spoke English. The former continued to live in clans, the latter under the institutions of feudalism and while the first re cognized no bond but that of family relationship, the others acknowledged all the political and territorial framework of a military society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
