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miles, upon the hope of finding that relief in a 

 firange land, which their native and highly favoured 

 ifland had denied them. 



Thus, what Britain loft, America gained ; and it 

 was not long before thofe very men became the in- 

 voluntary inftruments of punifhing the neglecl: of 

 a country, which hath within itielf the means of 

 iuftaining a more numerous population. 



It is difficult to afcertain what diftrifts have fuf- 

 fered moil by emigration ; but certain it is, that 

 between 1763 and 1775, above 30,000 people 

 abandoned their habitations, befides great numbers 

 from the Lowlands j and there is reafon to believe, 

 that in a few years more, the whole Highlands would 

 have been greatly depopulated, except thofe diftri&s 

 under the paternal care of an Argyle, an Athole, a 

 Brcadalbane, and a few other patriotic chieftains* 

 feut while the rage of emigration was thus depopu- 

 lating the north, an order of congrefs fhut up the 

 ports of America, and prohibited, under fevere 

 penalties, all intercourfe with Great Britain. To 

 this fingular event, more than to the foftering hand 

 of government, is owing the detention of thofe peo- 

 ple, whofe calamitous fituation hath been the fub- 

 jecl of the foregoing pages ; and whom to reftrain at 

 home by iuitable encouragement, will be- the fubjecl; 

 of what follows. 



Manners cf tbs Highlanders in former Times* 



When a barren country is fuffered to remain in a 

 ftate of nature, without arts, manufactures, or com- 

 merce, the inhabitants, impelled by the irrefiftibltf 

 demands of hunger, feize the cattle, and fome- 

 times the corn of the more fertile plains, which 

 they confider as lawful prey, without ever reflecting 

 on the diftreffes, which they thereby bring on the 

 injured proprietors. 



To fuch caufes were owing the frequent irruptions 

 of armed Highlanders upbn the Low Countries, to 

 which they proved a continual terror, n o twit hfta rid- 

 ing all the fpirited efforts of the Scottish princes to 



