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II. ACCOUNT of Sir GEORGE CLERK-MAXWELL, Baronet. 

 \_Read by Mr JOHN CLERK, junior, July 5. 1784.] 



SIR GEORGE Z,E#A:-My/ZJFELL of Pennycuik, Baro- 

 net, one of the Prefidents of the Phyfical Clafs of this So- 

 ciety, was born at Edinburgh on the laft day of October 1715. 

 He was the fourth fon of Sir JOHN CLERK of Pennycuik, one of 

 the Barons of Exchequer in Scotland : His mother was a 

 daughter of Sir JAMES INGLIS of Cramond. 



His more early ftudies were carried on at the Univerfity of 

 Edinburgh, under the eye of his father, who was himfelf a 

 man of letters, and from whom he appears very early to have 

 caught a ftrong tafle for Natural Hiftory, Antiquities and the 

 Theory of Commerce, particularly in fo far as thefe branches of 

 knowledge related to his own country. He afterwards went to 

 Leyden, where he rimmed his ftudies under the immediate in- 

 fpection of the celebrated BOERHAAVE, who had been the 

 friend of his father ; and, before his return home, he vifited 

 Several parts of France and Germany. 



AFTER fettling in his native country, his turn of mind led 

 him to ftudy, with great diligence, the commercial interefts of 

 Scotland, and to be zealous and active in promoting them. He 

 applied himfelf to the introduction and encouragement of va- 

 rious home-manufactures. In particular, he eftablifhed, at a 

 confiderable expence to himfelf, the Linen Manufactory at 

 Dumfries. He likewife fet on foot many different projects for 

 working lead and copper mines. In thefe laudable under- 

 takings, the public advantage outweighed with him every other 



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