Removal from the land happened everywhere but that doesn't though excuse the magnitude or sheer sudden brutality of some of the Clearances. Despite people moving away, or being forced away, the population continued to rise to a high in the 1840s then there was more massive upheaval, expulsions and starvation following the potato famine. Not on the scale of Ireland but pretty devastating all the same. The population of the Highlands and Islands as a whole plummeted. So I wouldn't, or didn't mean to, downplay what happened. My only point was that as far as the forced evictions go they were for the most part carried out by the Scots landed class so it was wrong to blame "the English" as such.