ULSTERMEN IN AMERICA.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPICTATOR.1
Sin,—In reference to your interesting article on "The Ulster- man in America," which I hope will be as widely read as it deserves, might I be permitted to add a detail to it, probably omitted by your able contributor for the sake of brevity, but which may illustrate the phrase referring to the crossing of the Alleghenies P I would give the name of Samuel Brady, whose grandfather emigrated from Ireland shortly before 1733, and who was not only Captain of the Rangers who protected the Allegheny frontier, but also one of those extraordinary men who, like Boone and Kenton, are the finest flower of a great race. For many years the Ulster settlers' existence depended on his vigilance, and the few adventures of his which remain recorded show him to have been a man of that individual kind of which Mr. Rudyard Kipling laments the loss among us moderns.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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