And so up to the very north, to the highlands of Scotland.

接下来，咱们去到苏格兰最北的高地地区。

This was midwinter, in the Highlands of Scotland, and many others perished and died in the cold.

这是苏格兰高地的仲冬，许多人在寒冷中丧生。

In countries which have little commerce, on the contrary, such as Wales, or the Highlands of Scotland, they are very common.

相反，在商业很少的国家，例如威尔士或苏格兰高地，它们非常普遍。

It is impossible there should be such a trade as even that of a nailer in the remote and inland parts of the highlands of Scotland.

在苏格兰高地的偏远内陆地区，甚至不可能有像钉工这样的行业。

A hospitality nearly of the same kind was exercised not many years ago in many different parts of the Highlands of Scotland.

几年前，在苏格兰高地的许多不同地区， 人们也表现出几乎相同的热情好客。

It is not uncommon, I have been frequently told, in the Highlands of Scotland, for a mother who has born twenty children not to have two alive.

经常有人告诉我，在苏格兰高地，一位生了二十个孩子的母亲没有两个活着，这并不少见。

A crown, half a crown, a sheep, a lamb, was some years ago, in the Highlands of Scotland, a common rent for lands which maintained a family.

一冠，半冠，一只绵羊，一只小羊，几年前在苏格兰的高地，是维持一个家庭的土地的共同租金。

In the lone houses and very small villages which are scattered about in so desert a country as the highlands of Scotland, every farmer must be butcher, baker, and brewer, for his own family.

在苏格兰高地这样荒凉的国家中，孤零零的房屋和非常小的村庄散落着，每个农民都必须为自己的家庭做屠夫、面包师和酿酒师。

In some parts of the Highlands of Scotland, the bark is the only part of the wood which, for want of roads and water-carriage, can be sent to market; the timber is left to rot upon the ground.

在苏格兰高地的某些地区，树皮是木材的唯一部分，由于缺乏道路和水路运输，可以将其送往市场；木材被留在地上腐烂。