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SETTLEMENT. 
In the sixteenth century James I introduced Scotch settlers into north- 
ern Ireland, who became the Scotch-Irish. Some of them emigrated to 
America; and their descendants, augmented by English, native Irish, 
Pennsylvania Dutch, and others, formed the van of the 3 10,000 frontiers- 
men who passed through Cumberland Gap, from 1775-1800, to settle in 
Ixentucky. 
1. Creek-road, ‘‘upright farm,’’ and forested ridge, near Pine Mountain Postoffice, Ky. 
Some of these found a home in the plateau region, which offered clear 
springs, magnificent forests, abundant game, and good valley land = suffi- 
cient for that first generation of hunter-farmers. No one could have fore- 
told then the coming of canal and railroad. 
