Highlanders

Inhabitants of the mountainous districts of n. and w. Scotland, long semi-barbarous, turbulent and predatory. Their attachment to the exiled Stuarts gave the gov IMG:content-0589.png:[graphic][graphic][merged small] ernment much trouble till in 1747 their heritable jurisdiction of feudal rights was abolished. The Highland regiments now are the 42d, 71st, 72d, 78th, 79th, 92d and 93d. See CLANS, TARTANS, GLENCOE.