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The shepherds and labourers of this tract of country, a hardy and athletic race of men, are almost universally engaged in the contraband trade, carried on for the coarsest and most destructive spirits, with the opposite coast. When no other vessel will venture to sea, these men hazard their lives to elude the watchfulness of the Revenue officers, and to secure their cargoes.
"Where the gemm'd sun-dew grows, or fring'd buck-bean,
They scare the plover"
Sun-dew.—Drosera rotundifolia
Buck-bean.—Menyanthes trifoliatum.
Plover.—Tringa vanellus.
