ABSTRACT
the ministers, lawyers, teachers, artisans, the books, letters, ideas that made the ocean crossing from Scotland to North America in the eighteenth century went as freight in vessels bound upon other business. More often than not, these vessels were outward bound from the Clyde for the Chesapeake to bring home tobacco for all the North and West of Europe. It will thus not be out of place, in this issue devoted to the cultural relations between Scotland and America in the eighteenth century, to examine, if only briefly, those material relationships which facilitated, if they did not entirely account for, the other, less material, exchanges.
