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A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS 

 OF JOHN CLAUDIUS LOUDON. 



BY HIS WIDOW. 



JoFiN Claudius Loudon was born on the 8th of April, 1*183, at Cambuslang, 

 in Lanarkshire, the residence of his mother's only sister, herself the mother of 

 Dr. Claudius Buchanan (the author of a work entitled Christian liesearches in 

 Asia), whose labors in India, in attempting to convert and instruct the Hindoos, 

 have made his name celebrated in the religious world. Mr. Loudon was the eldest 

 of a large family; and his father, wlio was a farmer, residing at Kerse Hall, near 

 Gogar, about Gve miles from Edini)urgh, being a man of enlightened mind and 

 erior information, was very anxious that he should have every possible ad 

 'n his education. Strange to say, however, Mr. Loudon, when a boy, thou 



