Upon a 8*ui shlnirg June morning in the ye.ir of grcce 1772 an ocean vessel made her wav up the curving line of tlue :iov known us the Hi 11 shorough River. Very slowly ,-nid carefully she glided over these, (to her) unknown waters, avoiding shoals and missel ".els iiji.uuciv.hle, After passing an eld fort once -ccuplf 1 lv the Fronch who had teen the former settltrs in this district, the good fhjj. skirted a low lying shore, whe.,-e the you.ig marsh ha;- scented the. summer air and i ^ve promise.of •.••• si I., gained crops ir. future y f rs. Finding no j.ar. i . .ot ... v •••-->*» > .-j ».« i =--»„. u »n» ki .. i •• ««. * i u»r> i i :*y «-.:* i « ^ i .gu. i ,/ carvi. i ^, offers a firo. f voting at the tt-st if «. low bank of de»-p red c3uy. TMs ■'■':■_ > t tie "Alt :inder" from Lock: Boise".-."La in Soi«tv TTi?t. ?o1 ><■■,'p*>«?( ngerc were emigvir.t? cow« to *<•<•> tlelr 'or-tune 'n 3t. .Tr>v.--' - ▼ .- i „T1.* nn.'*r *'e cull .je 'mio protect!1. "»n of G^rtMn Jn*-n V-cr-ml-' *>* Tli^el *■'"I •, coll** >t**» clans: f. Fer-f-gl '.1* ■■:.rj. Of these eii. i ^rants one hundred were fio. i "1st and one hundred ten froi. i "or-r -.ad other parts of Iw/ernesshire. ?he\ were accompanied Vj one Fp. i .her James IlacDonald from the diocese of the Isles, who had left his parish of DruTinond to conduct hie fellow clansmen to their new }.or.e, and to supply them with the consolations of that religion which was costing sor.e of them so dear. ■'.h- many well imagine thrt two ' andred and ten persons "Strangers in a strange land" ' • . pored with : * i-emendous amount ->7 hi_. - g:> '..' ■ t !.■> ."■"•. i eyes would Lppear curious ■ u' cumbersome, would t--ke o • little tl..? to scatter P'.d settle upon the spots destined to Luc (,..t th.iii- homes. Captain Jolin "acBonald* s family aid tearnts '..•(.:':■ t " •■: over the a: rr3w strh. of land to •. " .-v ' ':.<■ seigneur cf Tracadie strel ' ■■-'■ , "• ' * '.'• ers retained Viere they had Ian led. The year t.f:r: V-.; :.■".'* y:.1 ;; the «A • 1 -. - flith her h, • . >.:go, Captain John MacDoiuild, \:ho had iniuert;d:en to assist his oppressed and persecuted couj:'