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Upon a sun sliding June mornin5 in the gear of grece 1772 an ocean vessel made her way up the curving line of blue no“ known as the Hillsborough River. Very slowly and carefully she glided over theset (to her) unknown waters. avoidifig sheals and miesel Eels ihmumeratle. After passing an old fort once occupied by the French who tad been the former settlers in this district the good ship skirted u low lying shore, where the youag marsh hay scented the summer air and gave promise‘af easilg 5:;wia ed crops in uuura y are. Finding no 1m 1 :3. 5:2: ;:.:::.’. :22. main; t: min: 2'. :. :.~;'.‘ 12.33 2;: :‘aiy‘; slight}? curviu5, offers a firm rioting at the base of a low bank of deep red ciay. This ship was the "AlkgdnderN from Lock Boisffiie in Soutr Uist an] to; paeen gero were emigrwnts come to see? their 'nrtune *n 3t. dohn's ’slnnd under tle guidance

and. protech‘fin of Cantnin JnM Thcl‘en'zlr' ~' "v'lann'lv"el-. cell!” ‘7 ”0 Giana-r“.

Fer-a— 3:7.1 nne. Of these emibrunts one hundred Wei-e froj Jist and one hundred and

t n from Morer and other parts of Inveraesshire. They were accompanied by one

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Father James KacDonald from the diocese of the Isles, who had left his parish of Drummond to coriuct his fellow clfi. omen to tb.eir new none, and to supplyt izem with the consolatinns of that religion which was casting some of them so dear.

-Je man. dell imagine tLut two hundreu cud ten perbOJs "Stran5ers in a stran5e land“

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.ahd hampered with a tremendous amount 0i lu55r3e that to modern eyes would appear

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curious vni cumbersome, could take some little tine to seettcr o- settle upon the

_. _ - ,- V \. 3‘. _ ,.., v. ,. . ,. sputs destined to LUUJMG their homes. guidin nuhn .zcfishnld's fumilj and tenants

were tdren over the nsrffiw strip ff land to micro tie gelgneur 0.

across the mortlarn bench, 1 1t ctiere r;nnired bhere time M; 6 la :1dcd. ~u _ ‘~, _--..‘ l‘ ‘ ,_....--,“ ." u 0‘ - - _ . . -: c: 30.11 H . . . . ,H. . -~ . ..- r; :Jl‘ ”-L 'zum‘. t'- " «.it‘l. .‘ :.:l' . . ‘ .,'.‘. (-21:30, 325.313?le

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ohn XM’CDOUHIK, who had undertaken to assist his empressed und persecuted country-