One almost tires of reading of the historic British estates coming into the market, for the tale has been so oft repeated in recent years. If one is not too deeply steeped in romance he may fail to feel much remorse at the sale of many of the large English estates, for the greater part of their broad lands are of agricultural value. With Scotland it is rather different, for there is 50 much that is no more than heath and rock, where there is no more
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