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N THE early days of its possession by the English crown, the Island was surveyed out into a number of lots and divided by a. kind of

lottery among the friends and supporters of the government of the ' day, on condition that the grantee should within a certain term of

years establish a given number of settlers on his territory. Nearly all the grantees attempted to do this, and nearly forty—nine thousand Scotch, twenty-five thousand English and twenty-five thou-

sand Irish,vnow forming a. part of the population, are largely de- l scended from these early settlers. The Scotch were largely reinforced from i: t

the “broken clans” and Jacobite adherents who, after the fatal battle of Culloden in ‘1745, found little countenance or faVor from the English . government. McDonald, McGregor, McNeil], Stewart, and the like, are

common names in many sections, and even Man, Skye, Bute, and other northern Isles, sent many~ - representatives in the last century ' to the Island of Saint John. For nearly one hundred years in many localities the Gaelic tongue has been spoken, and the relics and legends, traditions, say— ings and family pride of Highlander and Islesman handed down“, from father to son.

Other Scotch settlers, however, were ‘ from Lowland parts, and brought withthem their strong adherence to

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