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THE drastic depopulation of the Highlands, its causes and the possibilities of development form the subject of a broadsheet on the “State of the Highlands” which has recently been published by Political and Economic Planning. In 1931 the population of the Highland counties, which represent nearly 19 per cent of the area of Great Britain, was 356,615, or less than 1 per cent of Great Britain's population and 100,000 below the 1861 figure; nearly 40,000 of the shrinkage has occurred since 1921.
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Development of the Scottish Highlands. Nature 138, 771–772 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138771b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138771b0