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lege of Edinburgh I think in 1807, but it may have been earlier). ^ 

 What classes he attended I know not. I am aware that he 

 attended Professor Leslie's class very early and attracted the 

 notice of that distinguished man by his application and profi- 

 ciency. I may also mention that he told me that when he came 

 to College, owing chiefly to Dan Hawkins, he could recite like his 

 eccentric teacher almost all the Iliad. He also said he could 

 read Latin strongly, meaning not very critically, but that he 

 caught the full sense and could translate freely. 



At the end of the session of College he returned to his step- 

 father's house at Kinross. His mother had not any children by 

 Dr Dempster, her second husband, so their interest and affection 

 were combined and centred in him alone. ^ Such being the case, 

 they verv judicioush resolved that instead of sending him to 

 College alone and unprotected, they would remove from Kinross 

 and reside in Edinljurgh, at least until his education should be 

 completed or till his ai)prenticeship to a lawyer was accomplished, 

 the legal profession being his choice. Dr Dempster accordingly 

 bought the flat Xo. 15 College Street, third floor, on the left 

 hand, and removed thither, I think, in 1808. This date I shall 

 afterwards learn correctly. The house still belongs to Mrs 

 Dempster, who in her will has, I understand, left it at her death 

 to her eldest grand-daughter, Margaret M'Culloch.^" 



Mr M'Culloch, under these favourable circumstances, came 

 to Edinburgh and entered on his second year at College. His 



8. It was in 1805, a.s Mr M'Culloch himself informed me in 

 Auj^ust, 1840, when he was in Edinburgh on the occasion of the 

 death of his mother. He lodged in Hill Street, old town. Edward 

 M'Culloch, his brother, told me in December, 1840, that the 

 brothers left Glasserton in December, 1805, travelled per carrier to 

 CUasgow, coached to Stirling, and thence walked to Kinross; also 

 that his brother entered College in 1806. The classes he attended 

 were mathematias (Professoi- Leslie) and natural philosophj^ (Pro- 

 lessor Playfair). 



9. The younger brother Edward M'Culloch, had meanwhile, 

 entered the army and the less that is said of him the better. He is 

 still living, having been dismissed from the army, and he is sup- 

 ported by a small weekly allowance given him by his elder brother. 



10. Dr Dempster did not buy a house on his first removal to 

 Edinburgh in 1806, but rented one in S. Richmond Street. It was 

 either during the subsequent year or in the beginning of 1808 that 

 he purchased the flat in No. 15 College Street. 



