Complex sentence: D Daiches, Edinburgh, Hamish Hamilton, London 1978, p.139 Some of the Aberdeen bailies seem to have colluded with the traffickers; an estimated 600 children disappearing from the town when the trade was at its height between 1740 and 1746.
Split into simpler sentences: D Daiches, Edinburgh, Hamish Hamilton, London 1978, p.139 Some of the Aberdeen bailies seem to have encouraged such abductions. An estimated 600 children were transported from the town when the trade was at its height between 1740 and 1746.