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IV ANTRIM AND DOWN GLOSSARY. between: [i,e. Belfast Lough, and a short distance to the north and south of. it] there are more than 1000 of this sort that land every summer without returning." Centuries before this time, large numbers of Scots had passed over into the county of Antrim, but they were Graelic-speaking Highlanders; they spread themselves over the district known as the * Glens of Antrim,' and kept up for a long time a close connection with their mother country, passing to and fro continually, and causing great trouble to the English rulers in Ireland. Their descendants, having amalgamated with the native Irish, still occupy the Glens, and Gaelic is spoken among them to this day. The spread of these turbulent Scots in Ulster is thus noticed by Mr. Hill in his MacdonndU of Antrim: — "In the year 1633 the council in Dublin forwarded this gloomy announcement on the subject to the council in London. ' The Scottes also inhabithe now bnyselly a greate parte of Ulster which is the kingis inheritance ; and it is greatly to be feared, oonless that in short tyme they be dryven from the same, that they bringinge in more nombre daily, woll by lyttle and lyttle soe far encroche in accquyring and wynning the possessions there, with the aide of the kingis disobeysant Irishe rebelles, who doo nowe ayde them therein, after siche manner, that at lengthe they will put and expel the king from his hole seignory there.* " Canon Hume, in an interesting paper on the Irish Dialects of the English language, reprinted from the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, thus speaks of the tide of immigration from Great Britain into the north of Ireland : — " About the year 1607, when much of Ulster required to be planted or resettled, immigration, instead of being, as previously, a mere rivulet — or largely dependent on the condition of the regiments serving in the country — ^became a flood, and strangers settled not by tens, but by thousands. A large number of these were from the apple districts of Warwickshire, Worcester, and Gloucester ; several were from Chester, through which the adventurers passed to take shipping at the mouth of the Dee ; a few were from the adjoining county of Lancaster ; and some from London. The great English settlement commenced on