Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London

A simple, homely people are the folk of Island McGill, and I doubt
if a more sober, thrifty, and industrious folk is to be found in
all the world. Meeting them abroad--and to meet them abroad one
must meet them on the sea, for a hybrid sea-faring and farmer breed
are they--one would never take them to be Irish. Irish they claim
to be, speaking of the North of Ireland with pride and sneering at
their Scottish brothers; yet Scotch they undoubtedly are,
transplanted Scotch of long ago, it is true, but none the less
Scotch, with a thousand traits, to say nothing of their tricks of
speech and woolly utterance, which nothing less than their Scotch
clannishness could have preserved to this late day.