swept overboard from the foremast arm and drovned. These emigrants were placed "by Father John on that part of the Parish of Fort Augustus called the "Settlement of the Five Houses " from the Tact of there being there the remains of five old houses built in the time of the French occupation of the country. Like many others attracted by Utopian visions of a land flowing with milk and honey, these "Glasgow" Irish had great expectations of the country to which they were coming, and when they found it to he anything hut a Canaan their dieoontent was loud and furious. They were for the most part utterly inexperienced in Agricultural matters, and to subdue the wild forest frowning around them appeared to be a task above their knowledge cr their strength. For the first t»o years, they suffered greatly from cold and want, '.then experience taught then, and the wilderness gave place to farms that are to-day in a high state of cultivation. As a large portio: i of Father John MacDonalds estate remained unoccupied, he entered into correspondence with the Rev. Patrick '-'oynaigh P.P . of Donagh , County Monaghan , with a view to induce that clergyman to send him a band of emigrants from that county. The description given was alluring, (perhaps too much so) Mild the worthy pastor of Donagh prevailed or a large numoer of his flock to try their fortune in the new world; these people all settled in Fort Augustus . The parishonors numbering atout sixty families contributed generously, according to their means towards the building of the first cr. ai oh which was commenced in the year 1337. The first collection in aid of the church was taken up by Peter Duffy and James MacDonald and amounted to 15. It was paid to one Hennessey for thirty acres of land, to which twenty more were added; the present pastor recently purchased four ao^es, :. making the church property in Fort Augustus fifty four acres in all. This pioneer church was never fully completed. Previous tn its erection mass w,"s celebrated in the mission once or twice a year first hy Bishop ycSacheru, and afterwards hy the P.ev. Charles MacDonell , the station was usually held at the