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Sentence Examples The shootings took place just eight miles from each other, raising fears a gunman could be on the prowl in the Highlands. It may not be in the Highlands, but it looks to the Highlands and is a great starting point for expeditions further north. As well as streams of south-west England and mainland Europe, the young salmon belong to rivers and glens that drain the western Highlands. All of the houses at Highlands are exempt from stamp duty for owner-occupiers. It would be like talking at length about the desolateness of the Scottish Highlands without mentioning the Highland Clearances. Concerns are also growing over the pylons needed to carry electricity from remote parts of the Highlands and the Borders. In the late prehistoric period, pine woodland was extensive in the Scottish Highlands and the west of Ireland. Fair enough, help out people in the Highlands who have no alternative but to drive. Symbols that evoke the past of the Highlands include the system of clan tartans and bagpipes. Clans, tartans, and Highlands, with the help of the Queen herself, had become utterly British and quite fashionable. But come late fall, the heavy snows force the crew to leave the Highlands for the relatively hospitable climate of southern Cape Breton. After a spell in America, they moved to Edinburgh, but were soon criss-crossing the Highlands in search of the perfect home. We also want to send visitors who come up with a fixed view of Highlands culture away happy. A year after his family set up home again in the Highlands his father passed away suddenly. Geologically the axes from the New Guinea Highlands comprise thermally metamorphosed basalt, chert and greywacke depending on quarry source. He added that broadband enablement remained a top priority for the telecoms group which launched its Highlands and Islands initiative last week. This was how she had dreamed it to be, the sharp crags of the Highlands and the Lowland's forever rolling green hills. In recent years there has been a flurry of headlines about prospecting companies coming to the Highlands in search of precious gems. Some believe that Armenians are native to the Anatolian Highlands and the Ararat Valley of west-central Asia. At the time it was painted, the Highlands were in a state of social turmoil. Show More Sentences Police in the Highlands yesterday renewed an appeal for help in identifying a holidaymaker who drowned in a river. Adam, who has the almost biblical language construction of the native Gaelic speaker, was brought up in the Highlands. In the Highlands, however, the system of heritable jurisdictions was intertwined with a distinctive set of social arrangements. He added that even within Scotland, costs differ considerably between farmers in the central belt and Highlands. Low-flying fighter and fighter-bomber training goes on all the time over the Highlands. The Greater Caucasian mountain range rises in the north and the Southern Georgian Highlands in the south. The Orcadian reporter Lorraine Shearer was named Journalist of the Year at the Highlands and Islands Media awards in Nairn on Friday night. He began thinking of the huge travelling contingent from the Highlands sitting above in the stand and wondering if they'd had a wasted journey. Then there is of course the wholesale wiping out of some 300 hamlets and villages in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. The findings follow a two-year study in the western Highlands where wild sea trout share coastal waters with penned salmon. These magnificent trees once coved the uplands of Lebanon, just as Scots pines once covered the Scottish Highlands. This project aims to trace the migration and wintering sites of the small population of honey buzzards which live in the Highlands. For complexity of form and for the splendour of its corries and glens, this hill has few equals in the central Highlands. The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland were terra incognita to almost all Englishmen, and most Lowland Scots. At the Cameron Highlands we'll find the Senoi, the dream people. The drama of the Highlands and the lure of the capital attract the bulk of visitors to Scotland, but there are many other corners of the country that are worthy of attention. Perhaps even now he is striding the Highlands, walking stick in hand. Asked to explain why he felt a land reform bill was necessary, he said it was needed to reverse the decline of the Highlands caused by the historic pattern of landownership. But he had a series of breakdowns in his twenties and thirties, leading him at one point to live rough in a remote bothy in the Scottish Highlands. And the decisive moments of an encounter that ought to prevent him enjoying days out in the Highlands this winter just summed up the lucklessness of the little man. Show More Sentences Peter Watkins' Culloden was a powerful recreation of the massacre of the Jacobites at the hands of the English in 1746, and the subsequent ransacking of the Highlands. James remains as one of the most successful rulers of Scotland, extending the powers of the crown over the Church and to the Highlands and the Isles. Laurel Highlands is southwest of her home, in Somerset, Pa., about a three-hour drive. Ministers who believe in an eternal mental and physical torment are much thicker on the ground in the Highlands and Islands and on the west coast of the mainland. Yet in the Highlands where the Minangkabau culture remains strongest, change seems further off. From that same part of the world, not far from the Highlands, we get the word OE, a whirlwind off OF the Faroe Islands. I had to pause for sheep crossing the road, which is a common occurrence when driving through the Highlands of Scotland. Even new technologies have, in a sense, merely allowed anthropology to intensify its traditional practices, like New Guinea Highlands cultivation of the sweet potato. The telephone company already uses satellites to provide broadband phone services to thinly populated areas of the UK such as the Highlands and Islands. The ancient Caledonian Forest once covered the Scottish Highlands. The jungled mountains of western Colombia, where the drugs are produced and guerrillas operate, look an awful lot like Vietnam's Central Highlands. He will most likely be assigned to the minimum-security Laurel Highlands State Prison, which has a special geriatric unit. Stranded motorists were rescued from their vehicles by the emergency services after snowdrifts up to 20 ft deep paralysed areas of the Scottish Highlands. For the first time in 2,000 years, Scots pine, alder, birch, hazel, holly, and mountain ash are set to reclaim a large swath of the Scottish Highlands. These included aggregations sampled along parallel watersheds in the Madawaska Highlands for examining fine geographic scale population structure. She also owns a stud farm near Newbury and a deer forest in the Highlands. The couple finally forsook the wild heather of the Highlands for fresh pastures in Ireland's midlands when they were bitten by the Irish ballad bug. A millionaire businessman has bought a 23,000-acre estate in the Highlands in a bid to reintroduce the wolf, the brown bear and the lynx to the wild. On this moderate-to-strenuous trip, we'll walk the pastoral lowland glens along the banks of exquisite Loch Lomond to the great Scottish Highlands. An example of a possible early games venue is at Fetteresso, although that location is technically a few miles south of the Scotland Highlands. Show More Sentences Somalia has only two permanent rivers, the Jubba and the Shabele, both of which begin in the Ethiopian Highlands. The Ethiopian Highlands are the largest continuous mountain ranges in Africa, and the Sof Omar Caves contains the largest cave on the continent. The Central Belt lies between the Highlands to the north and the Southern Uplands to the south. Somalia has only two permanent rivers, the Jubba and Shabele, both of which begin in the Ethiopian Highlands. The Kenyan Highlands are one of the most successful agricultural production regions in Africa. The island's interior, the Highlands of Iceland, is a cold and uninhabitable combination of sand, mountains, and lava fields. Both are also within the Highlands and Islands electoral region for the Scottish Parliament. It is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. In geological terms, the dividing line between Lowlands and Highlands is the Highland Boundary Fault. The Holyrood constituencies are also subdivisions of the Highlands and Islands electoral region. After attempts to permanently occupy the Highlands failed, the Romans fell back in 120 AD to the Stanegate line. The northern part of Galloway is exceedingly rugged and forms the largest remaining wilderness in Britain south of the Highlands. In the Scottish Parliament Caithness is represented also as part of the Highlands and Islands electoral region. Stirling Castle was one of the most important castles that was held by the English as it commanded the route north into the Scottish Highlands. In the Highlands there were shortages and very few spoke the Gaelic of the local population. This brought wealth and land ownership within the clan, although the Highlands continued to be overpopulated and poor. Even allowing for this estimate overstating the case, in time of war, the Highlands was seen as a significant recruiting resource. The Highlands and Islands of Scotland are broadly the Scottish Highlands, plus Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles. The Highlands and Islands are sometimes defined as the area to which the Crofters' Act of 1886 applied. The usual definition of the Grampian Mountains, as referring to the entire mass of the Central Highlands, would include the Cairngorms. Show More Sentences This event was instrumental in the creation of the Napier Commission, which reported in 1884 on the situation in the Highlands. The Gaelic spoken in the Aberdeenshire Highlands shared most features in common with the Gaelic of Strathspey and East Perthshire. The other major mountain ranges in Scotland are the Northwest Highlands and the Southern Uplands. Based on these results, the Scottish charity Trees for Life has proposed reintroducing beavers in the Scottish Highlands. Highland English or Highland and Island English is the variety of Scottish English spoken by many in the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides. During the ten years following 1847, from throughout the Highlands, over 16,000 crofters were shipped overseas to Canada and Australia. It was illegal, and it was burned to the ground on several occasions by soldiers sent from beyond The Highlands. Nevertheless, Stirling enjoys a unique position on the border between the Lowlands and Highlands. The biggest plantations and timber resources are to be found in Dumfries and Galloway, Tayside, Argyll and the Scottish Highlands. The trade brought urbanisation of the population, including large numbers of migrants from the Highlands and from Ireland. For the Scottish Parliament, the majority of Moray is in the Moray constituency and the Highlands and Islands electoral region. He also showed him manuscripts of Gaelic poetry, supposed to have been picked up in the Scottish Highlands and the Western Isles. Efforts to pacify the Highlands led to the Dress Act of 1746, banning tartans, except for the Highland regiments of the British army. Twenty years after her uncle's visit to Scotland, Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert made their first trip to the Scottish Highlands. For nearly two decades before the 1745 rising, many clansmen had been leaving the Highlands to live in the Americas. While some lists and clan maps confine their area to the Highlands, others also show Lowland clans or families. The airport is a hub on the Highlands and Islands network where flights between the islands, and other UK and European destinations connect. Highlands and Islands Airports Limited was incorporated on 4 March 1986 by the Civil Aviation Authority. Periglaciation in the Eastern Drakensberg and Lesotho Highlands produced solifluction deposits, blockfields and blockstreams, and stone garlands. In early 1827, after spending several weeks in Paris, he visited geological features in the Scottish Highlands with Roderick Murchison. Show More Sentences For example, it was the everyday language of most of the rest of the Scottish Highlands until little more than a century ago. By the 17th century Gaelic speakers were restricted largely to the Highlands and the Hebrides. In response, King George II charged Watson with making a military survey of the Highlands under the command of the Duke of Cumberland. Rob Gibson, Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Highlands and Islands welcomed the opportunity. Seasonal freezing of the ground in the Lesotho Highlands might have reached depths of 2 meter or more below the surface. In the glacial era, the Ythan River at this point would have been a torrent of melt waters streaming down from the Scottish Highlands. Her father taught her to swim in Highlands, New Jersey, where the family owned a summer cottage. The Hebridean Terrane is defined to the east by the Moine Thrust, beyond which lies the Northern Highlands Terrane. In 2008, moose were released into a fenced reserve on the Alladale Estate in the Highlands of Scotland. In the Scottish Highlands, the flowers may be seen as late as the middle of June. It has a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural straths in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands. Inverness College is the main campus for the University of the Highlands and Islands. This was despite continual warfare with England, the increasing division between Highlands and Lowlands, and a large number of royal minorities. Roughly a third of the clergy, mainly from the North and Highlands, formed the separate Free Church of Scotland. The Highlands and Islands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Arran to Stonehaven. The Highlands are generally mountainous and the highest elevations in the British Isles are found here. South of the gneisses are a complex mixture of rocks forming the North West Highlands and Grampian Highlands in Scotland. Geographically Scotland is divided between the Highlands and Islands and the Lowlands. The Highlands had a relatively short growing season, which was further shortened during the Little Ice Age. The highlands are further divided into the Northwest Highlands and the Grampian Mountains by the fault line of the Great Glen. Show More Sentences However, the Southern Uplands, and particularly the Highlands were economically less productive and much more difficult to govern. These small glaciers would have developed in the Lesotho Highlands and parts of the Drakensberg. Periglaciation in the Eastern Drakensberg and Lesotho Highlands produced solifluction deposits, blockfields, blockstreams and stone garlands. The rule of the Commonwealth and Protectorate was, the Highlands aside, largely peaceful. The Caledonian Canal provided a similar function in the Highlands of Scotland. Gaelic continued to be spoken widely throughout the Highlands until the 19th century. This created some of the large caledonian igneous provinces throughout the Scottish Highlands. This type of climate is even found in the very remote parts of the Papuan Highlands in Indonesia. The faultline separates the two distinctively different regions of the Highlands to the north and west, and the Lowlands to the south and east. However, Gaelic culture remained strong throughout Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and Galloway. In the Scottish Highlands too, the Gaels were generally slow to accept the Scottish Reformation. Scottish Gaelic remained the dominant languages of the Highlands into the 19th century, but has since declined. Highlands with evergreen forests are found in the northeastern and southeastern regions of the country. In the Ethiopian Highlands, the Solomonic dynasty established itself in the 13th century. It is rarely seen outside Scotland and in fact is still fairly uncommon in the Highlands. The ceremony took place at the Ardersier Parish Church near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. Jersey has a college of further education and university centre, Highlands College. The story is based on the Ninth Spanish Legion's supposed disappearance in the Scottish Highlands near the end of the Roman occupation. Mar's proclamation brought in an alliance of clans and northern Lowlanders, and they quickly overran many parts of the Highlands. In the aftermath of the 'Fifteen', the Disarming Act and the Clan Act made some attempts to subdue the Scottish Highlands. Show More Sentences After about a month of relative inactivity, Cumberland moved his regulars into the Highlands. The following week the Government launched punitive expeditions into the Highlands which continued throughout the summer. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Highland Council is the administrative body for much of the Highlands, with its administrative centre at Inverness. The period of the Napoleonic wars brought prosperity, optimism, and economic growth to the Highlands. Service in the Army was also attractive to young men from the Highlands, who sent pay home and retired there with their army pensions. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s was caused by a plant disease that reached the Highlands in 1846, causing great distress. For the most part, however, the Highlands are considered predominantly Protestant, loyal to the Church of Scotland. In Aberdeenshire, the boundary between the Highlands and the Lowlands is not well defined. A much wider definition of the Highlands is that used by the Scotch Whisky industry. The council area excludes a large area of the southern and eastern Highlands, and the Western Isles, but includes Caithness. Highlands is sometimes used, however, as a name for the council area, as in Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service. Highlands and Islands has, however, different meanings in different contexts. There have been trackways from the Lowlands to the Highlands since prehistoric times. They thus charge additional fees for delivery to the Highlands, or exclude the area entirely. The Great Glen is a transform fault which divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Much of the highest uplands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault in the Northwest Highlands and Grampian ranges. Both are located in the Cairngorms, a mountain range in the eastern Highlands which is the highest upland area in Britain. In the south of Scotland lie the Southern Uplands, a vast, rolling mountain chain that is less rugged and more forested than the Highlands. Show More Sentences Glasgow is Scotland's main locus of Gaelic language use outside the Highlands and Islands. Of Scotland's 25 largest cities, only Inverness, the unofficial capital of the Highlands, has a larger percentage of Gaelic speakers. The Scottish Parliament constituencies are also components of that parliament's Highlands and Islands electoral region. Nova Scotia has two national parks, Kejimkujik and Cape Breton Highlands, and many other protected areas. The Highlands comprise the northern portions of Inverness and Victoria counties. The Cabot Trail, circling the Cape Breton Highlands, and Trunk 19, along the island's western coast, are important secondary roads. A significant proportion of Free Church activity is to be found in the Highlands and Islands. As a lawyer's clerk he made his first visit to the Scottish Highlands directing an eviction. In 1910 Gunn became a Customs and Excise Officer and was posted back to the Highlands. He was assigned to a training base at Inverailort House in the Western Highlands. Trade routes from Gondar, located in the Ethiopian Highlands led to Massawa via Adwa. One of the most important cities in the Guatemalan Highlands at this time was Q'umarkaj, the capital of the aggressive K'iche' kingdom. The K'iche' had carved out a small empire covering a large part of the western Guatemalan Highlands and the neighbouring Pacific coastal plain. By the time of Spanish contact, ballcourts were only in use in the Guatemalan Highlands, at cities such as Q'umarkaj and Iximche. Other settlements were located in various locations throughout the Hudson Highlands. The most mountainous region is the Central Highlands area, which covers most of the central western parts of the state. Highlands made up of hard bedrock like Valdai and Tihvin had the opposite effect of diverting ice into basins. The tremendous scale of Vietnamese Kinh colonists flooding into the Central Highlands has significantly altered the demographics of the region. This plateau extends through the border with Cameroon, where the montane land is part of the Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon. It sent missions to Scotland's Highlands, and a handful to Indians in the American colonies. Show More Sentences The Eastern Highlands are a series of mountainous areas near the border with Mozambique. In 1801 Telford worked for the British Commission of Highlands Roads and Bridges. The Highlands, ZIP Code 01851, is the most populated neighborhood, with almost a quarter of the city residing here. Hillwalking is popular in mountainous areas such as the English Peak District or the Scottish Highlands. The Highland council area is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and Britain's largest local government area. The most mountainous region of Tasmania is the Central Highlands area, which covers most of the central western parts of the state. The Cameron Highlands are a highland area and hill station in Northern Malaysia. He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them. The 26-year-old died in a f reak road accident in the Highlands in June last year. The dominance of the sweet potato, Ipomoea batatas, in the Highlands up to some 2000 m, is well known. A GREAT band from the Highlands who, all at once seem to be baggy, Britpop and Ben Folds Five wrapped up in pop melodies. A COMPUTER expert who fled to the Highlands to escape the Millennium Bug has split from his wife. Origanum ramonense is a low chamaephyte that is confined to smooth limestone rocks in the Negev Highlands. The creatures have grazed on the Knoydart peninsula, in the West Highlands, since the escape of two nanny goats and a billy 25 years ago. A series of Early Eocene sites collectively called the Okanagan Highlands also fits this description well. Scottish Natural Heritage is preparing a consulation on the status of peatlands in the Highlands and Islands. Application of the titanium-in-quartz thermometer to pelitic migmatites from the Adirondack Highlands, New York. The Highlands has numerous hideaways for the super-rich including five star, 600-a-night Inverlochy Castle Fort William. The Highlands has numerous hideaways for the super-rich including five-star, pounds 600-a-night Inverlochy Castle in Fort William. Petrology of high-Alhornblende and magmatic epidote bearing plutons in the southeastern Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia. Show More Sentences Meet the teenager with a tough past who has become an Ivy Leaguer after living in a care home in the Highlands. Using Roman naval support along the North Sea coast of Scotland, Gnaeus Julius Agricola continued the invasion and exploration northward into the Scottish Highlands. John Erskine, Earl of Mar, raised the Jacobite clans in the Highlands. This alone would however not have been enough to create a widespread glaciation or permafrost in the Drakensberg Mountains or the Lesotho Highlands. Feral goats are a fairly common sight in the Scottish Highlands. I HADN'T got much further than the first chapter of my Loch Ness folklore book when my flight from Birmingham arrived in the Highlands of Scotland. Malcolm Dent moved to the Highlands with the Led Zeppelin guitarist in 1971 when Page bought Boleskine House, the former home of self-styled Satanist Aleister Crowley. The college has published a PDF version of the 19th century Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands report. By the late 17th century there was a largely complete network of parish schools in the Lowlands, but in the Highlands basic education was still lacking in many areas. Clan support, their remoteness from authority and the ready mobilisation of the clan hosts made the Highlands the starting point for the Jacobite Risings. It was soon realised that Highlanders made excellent troops and a number of regiments were raised from the Highlands over the second half of the eighteenth century. Many roads in the Highlands are single track, with passing places. In an effort to prevent further trouble in the Scottish Highlands, the government outlawed many cultural practices to destroy the warrior clan system. Beyond Scalan there were six attempts to found a seminary in the Highlands between 1732 and 1838, all suffering financially under Catholicism's illegal status. The reason appears to be that kirk was borrowed into Galwegian Gaelic, though it was never part of Gaelic as it was spoken in the Highlands or Ireland. Loch Lomond is a freshwater loch lying on the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the Highlands. The unemployment rate in the area tends to be higher than in the Highlands as a whole, and is seasonal in nature, in part due to the impact of tourism. The Cairngorms represent a major barrier to travel and trade across Scotland and helped to create the remote character of the Highlands that persists today. The Highlands and Islands Partnership for Transport, established in 2006, covers most of the council areas of Argyll and Bute, Highland, Moray, Orkney and the Western Isles. The Southern Presbytery consists of the Scottish congregations South of the Scottish Highlands, and the congregations in England and North America. Show More Sentences The significance of their support for the Stuarts was that the Highlands was the only part of Britain which still maintained private armies, in the form of clan levies. These new records are confined to physiographic regions of Chiapas such as the Central Depression, Northern Highlands, and Sierra Madre of Chiapas. As a result, the Scottish Highlands continues to have the most unequal distributions of land in Europe, with more than half of Scotland owned by fewer than 500 people. Strontium isotope analysis of the animal teeth showed that some had been brought from as far afield as the Scottish Highlands for the celebrations. Until 1750, potatoes had been relatively uncommon in the Highlands. A Big Burns Stramash in the Highlands and Alloway 1759 will take place in South Ayrshire, while Burns Birthday in Mauchline will be held in East Ayrshire. Particularly in the West Highlands and the Isles, the residents of these small agricultural plots were reliant on potatoes for at least three quarters of their diet. It will have a major impact on the city and on the Highlands and Islands. Highlands and Islands Enterprise has principally funded the Centre for Health Science to attracting more businesses in the medical and medical devices business to the area. The fortifications approximately follow the boundary between Scotland's fertile Lowlands and mountainous Highlands, in Perth and Kinross and Angus. Further and higher education, including a range of degrees, is available through Perth College UHI, one of the largest partners in the University of the Highlands and Islands. The crofting and cottar population of the Highlands and Islands, small though it be, is a nursery of good workers and good citizens for the whole empire. While I remain hopeful of one day spotting a wildcat on my ventures in the Highlands, I couldn't care less if I never saw Mr Brewer's face on my screen again. In the far west, around County Galway and County Donegal, is a medium to high grade metamorphic and igneous complex of Caledonide affinity, similar to the Scottish Highlands. By the early modern era Gaelic had been in geographical decline for three centuries and had begun to be a second class language, confined to the Highlands and Islands. It also contributed to a tradition of Scottish landscape painting that focused on the Highlands, formulated by figures including Alexander Nasmyth. By the late 17th century, there was a largely complete network of parish schools in the Lowlands, but in the Highlands basic education was still lacking in many areas. The defining factor in the geography of Scotland is the distinction between the Highlands and Islands in the north and west and the Lowlands in the south and east. The Ethiopian Highlands cover most of the country and have a climate which is generally considerably cooler than other regions at similar proximity to the Equator. Many of these groups played largely music originating from the Lowlands, while later, more successful bands tended to favor the Gaelic sounds of the Highlands. Show More Sentences The Highlands in the early seventeenth century saw the development of piping families including the MacCrimmonds, MacArthurs, MacGregors and the Mackays of Gairloch. In many lowland industrial areas, for instance, and parts of the Highlands and Islands, little scope existed for the democratic intellect' in either pupils or dominies. However, even prior to 1948, half of Scotland's landmass was already covered by state funded health care, provided by the Highlands and Islands Medical Service. By the late seventeenth century there was a largely complete network of parish schools in the lowlands, but in the Highlands basic education was still lacking in many areas. Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the east by the Armenian Highlands, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia. There is also evidence of adoption of the fiddle in the Highlands. The Postclassic period saw the rise of Chichen Itza in the north, and the expansion of the aggressive K'iche' kingdom in the Guatemalan Highlands. To the south the plain gradually rises towards the Guatemalan Highlands. The disparity between the wealth of the merchant classes of the Scottish Lowlands and the ancient clans of the Scottish Highlands grew, amplifying centuries of division. The Highlands in the early seventeenth century saw the development of piping families including the MacCrimmons, MacArthurs, MacGregors and the Mackays of Gairloch. The evangelical Free Churches grew rapidly in the Highlands and Islands. Many of the traders who came in the later 18th and 19th centuries were Gaelic speakers from the Scottish Highlands who brought their language to the interior. Many rivers begin in the Central Highlands and flow out to the coast. All of these dialects have their origins in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, although some have become effectively dormant since the time of emigration. The Vodka is made from multiple grains and distilled SIX times whereas the Tequila is made from Pure Blue Agave Plants and distilled in the Highlands of Jalisco, Mexico. The Highland Clearances of the 19th century destroyed communities throughout the Highlands and Islands as the human populations were evicted and replaced with sheep farms. In 2012, BP shut down the BP Biofuels Highlands project which was developed since 2008 to make cellulosic ethanol from emerging energy crops like switchgrass and from biomass. The A82 connects the city to Argyll and the western Highlands. The archipelago also has a distinct culture, with traditions of the Scottish Highlands such as Tartan, clans, bagpipes not indigenous to the culture of the islands. Parts of the Highlands have an average of 36 to 60 snow days per year, while some western coastal areas have between 0 and 6 days with snow a year. Show More Sentences Much of the Highlands area overlaps the Highlands and Islands area. Lowellians further distinguish the sections of the Highlands as the Upper Highlands and the Lower Highlands, the latter being the area closer to downtown. Highland games are held in spring and summer in Scotland, celebrating Scottish and celtic culture and heritage, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. Probably the most known highlands in the anglosphere are the Scottish Highlands in northern Scotland, the mountainous region north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. The Scottish Reformation achieved partial success in the Highlands. The international craze for tartan, and for idealising a romanticised Highlands, was set off by the Ossian cycle, and further popularised by the works of Walter Scott. In 1725 Wade raised the Black Watch as a militia to keep peace in the unruly Highlands, but in 1743 they were moved to fight the French in Flanders. In the UK, the Twite is subject to several research projects in the Pennines, the Scottish Highlands and the North wales and Lancashire coast lines. A local newspaper informed that more than 50 people were killed in two Highlands provinces of Papua New Guinea in 2008 for allegedly practicing witchcraft. Former Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy's seat of Ross, Skye and Lochaber was to be divided between three other seats covering the Highlands, and Argyll and Bute. Numerous Highland Jacobite supporters, captured in the aftermath of Culloden and rigorous Government sweeps of the Highlands, were imprisoned on ships on the River Thames. One could find vast groups of Mayan people in Boca Costa, in the Southern portions of Guatemala, as well as the Western Highlands living together in close communities. The Brazilian Highlands on the east coast are fairly smooth but show some variations in landform, while farther south the Gran Chaco and Pampas are broad lowlands. The visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 reinvigorated Scottish national identity, melding it with romanticist notions of tartan, kilts and the Scottish Highlands. The first comprehensive account of the Lewisian complex was published in 1907 as part of the Geological Survey memoir on the structure of the Northwest Highlands. Examples from Classical Literature I will haul up for the Highlands, and anchor under them, should it be necessary. The goosander, in our islands, is as yet only known to breed in a few localities in the Highlands. Need fire was produced in this manner in the Highlands as late as 1356, at which time a cattle plague ravaged the country side. They were to be married in the middle of August, and to spend their honeymoon at his shooting box in the Highlands. The old table-land of which the Highlands and Islands are the denuded and unsubmerged relics, is of vast geological antiquity. Sometimes in the spring of the year the winds from lorn have it their own way with the Highlands. She told Mrs. warrener she was ready to go with them to the Highlands whenever they chose. In the Highlands they are now-and-then to met with, and there they quite resemble ours. Old Fetch was a shepherd dog and lived in the Highlands of the Hudson. In 2012, an attempt to swim the 30-mile Little Minch strait, which separates the Highlands and the Inner Hebrides, failed due to bad weather. Everywhere they met signs of the parting of the ways in the Highlands. The entrance of The Highlands is thus unique in combining the three. The Scottish Highlands are the exact opposite of these flat plains. The Highlands isn't normally the sort of place you'd associate with sexy actresses like Amanda Ooms cavorting about in the buff. Great quantities of coal and iron are mined in the Eastern Highlands. Going from Stirling to Crieff we crossed the borderline of the Highlands. The belief that James was the legitimate ruler became known as Jacobitism a real stronghold of which was the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Alum and copperas have been known in the Highlands long ages. Introduced to the mountains and lakes of the Highlands, her ladyship positively declined to improve her acquaintance with them. Nothing is more graceful than the reel and schottische of the Highlands. Show More Sentences Germaine has a house in Berkeley Square and a country-seat in the Highlands. When I say I'm from the lowlands of West Yorkshire not the Highlands, they have a laugh and call me a sassenach. Mark Sennet is sounding out the Scottish Government over filming The Crusaders and The Man on the Rock in the Highlands. The wild hill-sides and hollows frequently reminded the beholder of the glens in the Highlands of Scotland, as Kennedy more than once remarked. Inverness is renowned as the gateway to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Find more words! 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