Note 239-1 — Chapter I
John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation
When it is known that, in the Hebrides, one-third of all the labor of the people has to be employed in procuring combustible material (McCulloch, Statist. Account, I, 319), it will no longer excite surprise that, according to Scotch statistics, some parishes increase in population after coal has been found in them, and others decrease when their turf-beds are exhausted.