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 enjoy, under our most venerable constitution; for I was not only thereby enabled, by what I got, to repair the windows, but to build up a vacant steading; the same, which I settled last year on my dochter, Marion, when she was married to Mr Geery, of the Gatherton Holme. 



body now assume the name of Old Presbysterian Dissenters. They are peculiarly distinguished in the page of history as "The Covenanters" from the very active part their forefathers acted previous to the Revolution in 1688. These Scottish reformers found it necessary at that period to unite in various solemn bonds or covenants, for promoting and maintaining the interests of true religion, as well as for their mutual defence; and they are still strenuous advocates for the binding obligation of the national covenant of Scotland, and of the solemn league and covenant of the three kingdoms. Various names have been bestowed upon them.—Their most general appellation "Cameronians," is derived from the rev. Richard Cameron, who fell at Air moss, in Kyle, 20th of July, 1680:--Mountain-men, from their having often been obliged, even in modern times, to administer the ordinances in the open fields.—They have been also stiled "Anti-government-people;" but which they reject with indignation. It is, however true, that they entertain decided scruples as to the terms, or fundamental conditions, on which persons are admitted into places of power