The little
chapel of logs and shingle--18 feet by 20--in which the settlers of that
day knelt in gratitude to God, has for many years been replaced by a
noble stone church, through whose painted windows the Canadian sunlight
streams gloriously, and in which two thousand worshippers listen with
the old Irish reverence to the words of their pastor. The tones of the
pealing organs swell in solemn harmony, where the simple chaunt of the
first settlers was raised in the midst of the wilderness; and for miles
round may the voice of the great bell, swinging in its lofty tower, be
heard in the calm of the Lord's day, summoning the children of Saint
Patrick to worship in the faith of their fathers."--_The Irish in
America_, by John F. Maguire, M.P. London, 1868, p. 110.
[278] Quoted in Report of Committee of the House of Lords on
Colonization from Ireland in 1847, p. vii.
[279] Quoted in Report of Committee of the House of Lords on
"Colonization from Ireland" in 1847, p. 10.
[280] Sessional Papers, 1846, No. 24.
[281] Sessional Papers, 1835.
[282] The Census Commissioners, whose Emigration Statistics I use, do
not add the one and a-half per cent. for probable births; hence they
state the number of emigrants between 1831 and 1841 at 403,459 only.
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