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CITY OF LONDONDERRY. 
Race .—The next step after the above review of the number of the people at different 
periods, is the consideration of the different races, of which they have consisted, and at present 
consist. It appears that down to the occupation of Derry by Docwra in 1600, the place was 
inhabited chiefly by that race of the native Irish, called Kinel-Owen, of whom the Mac-Loughlins, 
O Deei-y s and O Cairellans, were the most numerous and respectable families. The colony of 
Docwra which supplanted them were wholly English; and that introduced at the plantation was 
nearly so, as appears from the muster-roll of the men of Derry, above cited, in which there 
occur only about three or four names of Scottish origin, and an equal number of Irish. Subse¬ 
quently to that period there was a considerable influx of Scotch settlers, whose present de¬ 
scendants constitute the larger portion of the respectable citizens. The great bulk of the popu¬ 
lation are now, however, of the aboriginal rival Irish tribes, of the Kinel-Connell and Kinel- 
Owen, who commingled with the English and Scottish races, retain but little recollection of past 
feuds, and are rapidly approaching a state of harmonious amalgamation, through the happy in¬ 
fluence of wise laws, and the arts of peace. On referring to the list of mayors and sheriffs, it is 
rather remarkable, that the respectable name of Babington does not occur_that family'being 
among the earliest settlers, as is evident from the plan of Docwra’s city, in which «• Babington’s 
house” is the only private residence laid down in addition to the governor’s. 
Supply .—Having traced the number of the people, and their race down to the present day, 
it will here be necessary to advert to the means which the working classes in particular possess of 
supplying both their natural and artificial wants—so far as these have not been already treated of 
under the heads Education, Benevolence, Justice, &c. Here a comparison between the prices of 
provisions and the wages of labour becomes particularly interesting, and the groundwork for such 
is very amply afforded by the subjoined extract from Porter’s “ Tables of the Revenue, Popula¬ 
tion, Commerce, &c., of the United Kingdom and its Dependencies.” 
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