Note 750 — REIGN OF GEORGE II.: 1727–1748. (continued 2)

‘The man has not been dead many years who first introduced from Ireland the culture of the potato into the peninsula of Cantyre; he lived near Campbelton. From him the city of Glasgow obtained a regular supply for many years; and from him also the natives of the Western Highlands and Isles obtained the first plants, from which have been derived those abundant supplies on which the people there now principally subsist.’—Anderson’s Recreations, vol. ii. (1800) p. 382.