Tour Scotland photograph of an abandoned piece of road building machinery on Isle of Rum, Scotland. Rum is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber. Donald Maclean, Minister of the Parish of Small Isles, wrote in The New Statistical Account, that " in 1826 all the inhabitants of the Island of Rum, amounting at least to 400 Scots, found it necessary to leave their native land, and to seek for new abodes in the distant winds of our colonies in America. Of all the old residents, only one family remained upon the Island. The old and the young, the feeble and the strong, were all united in this general emigration, the former to find tombs in a foreign land, and the latter to encounter toils, privations, and dangers, to become familiar with customs, and to acquire that to which they had been entire strangers. "
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