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The New York Packet
New York, New York County, New York
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Mr. Knox reports from his northern tour that thousands in the Scottish Highlands are eager to emigrate to North America due to crop failures, fuel shortages from high coal duties and scarce wood/peat, salt scarcity making fisheries unprofitable, and resulting diseases killing many who rely on fish.
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A few days ago arrived in this city, from his northern tour, the truly patriotic Mr. Knox. The accounts he brings of the people in the Highlands are extremely distressing, some thousands of whom are quite impatient to quit their native country and embark for the deserts of North-America. He represents some of the reasons of these poor people wanting to shift the scene to be, the almost general failure of their crops; the high duty on coals, in many parts, there being such a scarcity of wood or peat, that the people pare the surface of the earth for fuel, (which nature meant to produce the means of their subsistence) and the want of salt, a sad source of calamity to those unhappy people, as it renders their fisheries unprofitable, and their lives miserable; for, having nothing to subsist on all the year but fish, fluxes and various other disorders carry off numbers.
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Highlands
Event Date
Jan. 4
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thousands impatient to emigrate; numbers carried off by fluxes and disorders
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Mr. Knox arrived in Edinburgh from his northern tour with distressing accounts of Highland people facing crop failure, high coal duties amid wood and peat scarcity leading to paring earth for fuel, and salt shortage rendering fisheries unprofitable and causing misery and deaths from diseases among fish-dependent population.