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gloried in the warlike renown of their forefathers, 

 the men who had followed Cromwell, and who had 

 shared in the defence of Derry and in the victories 

 of the Boyne and Aughrim. 7 



They did not begin to come to America in any 

 numbers till after the opening of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury; by 1730 they were fairly swarming across the 

 ocean, for the most part in two streams, the larger 

 going to the port of Philadelphia, the smaller to the 

 port of Charleston. 8 Pushing through the long set- 

 tled lowlands of the seacoast, they at once made their 

 abode at the foot of the mountains, and became 

 the outposts of civilization. From Pennsylvania, 

 whither the great majority had come, they drifted 

 south along the foothills, and down the long valleys, 

 till they met their brethren from Charleston who 

 had pushed up into the Carolina back-country. In 

 this land of hills, covered by unbroken forest, they 

 took root and flourished, stretching in a broad belt 

 from north to south, a shield of sinewy men thrust 

 in between the people of the seaboard and the red 

 warriors of the wilderness. All through this region 

 they were alike; they had as little kinship with the 

 Cavalier as with the Quaker; the West was won by 



7 For a few among many instances: Houston (see Lane's 

 "Life of Houston") had ancestors at Derry and Aughrim 

 the McAfees (see McAfee MSS. ) and Irvine, one of the com- 

 manders on Crawford's expedition, were descendants of men 

 who fought at the Boyne ("Crawford's Campaign," G. W. 

 Butterfield, Cincinnati, 1873, P- 26) ; so with Lewis, Camp- 

 bell, etc. 



8 Foote, .78. 



