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summer or autumnal months ; and, in the course of a few years, 
there were few scenes, either in England or in Scotland, which 
he had not visited, that were distinguished, either by natural 
beauty,—by poetical celebration,—by the residence of eminent 
men,—or by the occurrence of memorable transactions. In 
such employments, to him (as to all who are capable of it) 
there was something more than amusement; and he never 
returned from them, without feeling his taste improved, his ar- 
dour in study animated by the memories of illustrious men, 
and his love of his country increased, both by the monuments 
of its former glory, and the appearances of its progressive 
prosperity. 
In the year 1770, Mr “Tetcacing was called to the Bar; and in 
the spring of the succeeding year, he accompanied his friend 
and relation Mr Kerr of Blackshiels on a tour to Paris, from 
which they returned by Flanders and Holland. 
The year 1776 was marked by the most important as well 
as the most fortunate event of his life, by his marriage to Miss 
Anne Fraser, eldest daughter of Witt1am Fraser, Esq. of 
Balnain,—an union which Fan long been the object of his se- 
cret wishes,—which now stata licked all the hopes he had 
formed of domestic happiness,—and which, after the long pe- 
riod of thirty-six years, unclouded almost by misfortune or dis- 
tress, closed at Jast in more grateful and profound affection 
than it at first began. 
At this period, when the business and the duties of life were 
opening fully upon him, Mr Tyrier seems to have made a 
very deliberate estimate of the happiness that was suited to his 
character, and to have marked out to hiniself, with a very firm 
hand, the course he was afterwards to pursue. His profession 
opened the road both to professional fame, and to civil distine- 
tion, and the circumstances of the times were of a kind to ani- 
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