expedition--no doubt to the great comfort of landlords, agents, and
tithe-proctors.

The Government behaved very liberally to these settlers. A grant of a
hundred acres of good land was given to each head of a family, and to
every son above twenty-one years of age.

A good milch cow, and rations of pork and flour were assigned to each
emigrant family. These provisions they continued to receive for upwards
of eighteen months, besides a variety of stores, such as axes, hammers,
saws, nails, grindstones, &c. A good log-shanty was also built on each
settler's lot. These people have done as well as could be expected,
considering the material of which they were composed. It has been
observed that, whenever these people were located amongst the
Protestant population, they made much better settlers than when
remaining with Catholics.

In fact, a great improvement is perceptible in the morality, industry
and education of the rising generation, who grow up more virtuous and
less bigoted to their exclusive religious opinions.

As a general rule, the English, Scotch, and north of Ireland men make
much better and more independent colonists than emigrants from the
south of Ireland.

Seven years after the location of Robinson's emigrants, a colony of
Wiltshire people settled in the township of Dummer under many more
disadvantages than those placed by Government in the township of Douro.

The Dummer people had no shanties built for them, no cows, and were