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SETTLEMENT. 



Iu 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 300,000 frontiers- 

 men who passed through Cumberland Gap, from 1775-1800, to settle in 

 Kentucky. 



1. Creek-road, "upright farm," and forested ridge, near Pine Mountain Postofhee, 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. 



