Excerpt from About UlsterLeland, speaking of the introduction of civility into Ireland by the Plantation of Ulster, says, these six northern counties comprised a tract of country covered with woods, where robbers and rebels found a secure shelter, desolated by war and famine, and des tined to be waste without the deliberate and vigorous interposition of the English Government.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.