Essays on the origin of society, etc / Interspersed with illustrations from the Greek and Galic languages.
- James Grant of Corrimony
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays on the origin of society, etc / Interspersed with illustrations from the Greek and Galic languages. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE idea exprefled by the Roman poet * ap- pears to be philofophically corrett: Atque ipfa utilitas jufti prope mater ὃς equi: meaning, that before the general utility of regu- lating property came to be underftood, a fenfe of juftice and equity was not unknown to the human mind. THE Galic language furnifhes no proper word to exprefs poffefion}, as it is underftood diftin& 3 Hor. Sat. lib. i. +- The word Seilbh is properly cattle. In the ftricteft fenfe of the word, it is a generic name for animals dropping a liquid fubftance. δεῖ] fignifies, to fall in drops; and Seilag, a {mall er inconfiderable portion of any liquid fubftance. It is the cuftom of the Highlanders of Scotland, in the fummer months, to remove, with their wives, children, the neceflary houfhold furniture, and all their cattle, from their winter habitations (which are fituated in the vallies, where their corn-fields are), to their pafture-grounds upon the higher and more diftant mountains. There they remain, with their cattle, until the grafs of the lower grounds is fully grown. Then they return with their milch cattle only, leaving what they call their fea/z or dry cattle in the higher paftures. The word Sheil is ftill preferved, among the people of the low country of Scotland, as a name for that fpot of the pafture-grounds upon which the Highlanders K 2 build](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33518865_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
