Then at length the effects of the policy of Tyrconnel began to be felt ever, in that remote corner of Ireland.

In the eyes of the peasantry of Munster the colonists were aliens and heretics.

The buildings, the boats, the machines, the granaries, the dairies, the furnaces, were doubtless contemplated by the native race with that mingled envy and contempt with which the ignorant naturally regard the triumphs of knowledge.

Nor is it at all improbable that the emigrants had been guilty of those faults from which civilised men who settle among an uncivilised people are rarely free.

The power derived from superior intelligence had, we may easily believe, been sometimes displayed with insolence, and sometimes exerted with injustice.