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ring fisheries, and was resorted to by the New Eng- land fishermen before the American Revolution. During the last twenty years, several cargoes of tim- ber have been exported from this port ; and a num- ber of ships and brigs have been built here. for the English market.

The inhabitants of Richmond llay arc principally Scotch ; Inany of whom, or their parents, emigrated along with Judge Stewart’s family, in 1771, from Cantyre, in Scotland. They retain most of the habits, customs, and superstitions, then prevalent in their native country; so much so, that in mixing with them, I have heard old people, who remembered the amuse- ments common at Christmas, Hallowe’en, and other occasions, fifty years ago, say they could fancy them- selves carried back to that period. The old music, the old songs, the old tales of Covenanters and Papistry, the ghost stories of centuries past, ar‘eoften heard in this district; and I must also add, that I have seen, at the kirk at Prince Town, and in its immediate vicinage, striking delineations of some of the most highly-coloured pictures in the Holy Fair of Burns. I I may here observe generally, that customs and man- ners, which are nearly forgotten in Scotland, have become domiciliated in this district, and in some other parts of the island. There are a few English families, and a great number of Irish, settled among the other inhabitants at Richmond Bay. The Irish settlers were generally employed previously in the Newfoundland fisheries.

At St Eleanor’s there was a popular settlement of