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a--Georgia--East Tennessee--Kentucky Canada--Industrial Arts--Distinctive Characteristics 40 CHAPTER III. CAUSES THAT LED TO EMIGRATION. Results of Clanship--Opposed to Emigration--Emigration to Ulster Expatriation of 7000--Changed Condition of Highlanders--Lands Rented Dissatisfaction--Luxurious Landlords--Action of Chiefs in Skye--Deplorable State of Affairs--Sheep-Farming--Improvements--Buchanan's Description--Famine--Class of Emigrants--America--Hardships and Disappointments 60 CHAPTER IV. DARIEN SCHEME. First Highlanders in America--Disastrous Speculation--Ruinous Legislation--Massacre of Glencoe--Darien Scheme Projected--William Paterson--Fabulous Dreams--Company Chartered--Scotland Excited Subscriptions--List of Subscribers--Spanish Sovereignty over Darien--English Jealousy and Opposition--Dutch East India Company--King William's Duplicity--English and Dutch Subscriptions Withdrawn--Great Preparations--Purchase of Ships--Sailing of First Expedition--Settlement of St. Andrews--Great Sufferings--St. Andrews Abandoned--The Caledonia and Unicorn Arrive at New York--Recriminations--The St. Andrews--The Dolphin--King Refuses Supplies--Relief Sent--Spaniards Aggressive--Second Expedition--Highlanders--Disappointed Expectations--Discordant Clergy--How News was Received in Scotland--Give Vent to Rage--King William's Indifference--Campbell of Fonab--Escape--Capitulation of Darien Colony--Ships Destroyed--Final End of Settlers 75 CHAPTER V. HIGHLANDERS IN NORTH CAROLINA. On the Cape Fear--Town Established--Highlanders Patronized--Arrival of Neil McNeill--Action of Legislature--List of Grantees--Wave of Emigration--Represented in Legislature--Colony Prosperous--Stamp Act--Genius of Liberty--Letter to Highlanders--Emigrants from Jura--Lands Allotted--War of Regulators--Campbelton Charter--Public Road--Public Buildings at Campbelton--Petition for Pardon--Highland Costume--Clan Macdonald Emigration--Allan Macdonald of Kingsborough--American Revolution--Sale of Public Offices--Attitude of Patriots--Provincial Congress--Highlanders Objects of Consideration--Reverend John McLeod--Committee to Confer with Highlanders--British Confidence--Governor Martin--Provincial Congress of 1775--Farquhard Campbell--Arrival of the George--Other Arrivals--Oaths Administered--Distressed Condition--Petition to Virginia Conv
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