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On 
which now connects, by an eafy and fpacious communication, 
the fuburbs on the fouth with the reft of the city. 
Wiruin little more than two years, (fuch was the activity 
of the managers), the bridge was completely finifhed ; and al- 
‘though the expence, including the firft purchafe of the pro- 
perty, amounted to not lefs than L. 63,000, yet it is expected, 
when the areas which ftill remain to be ‘fold are difpofed of, 
and the prices of thofe already fold are paid up, that the tru- 
{tees for the bridge will be enabled to pay over to the Magi- 
ftrates, for the purpofe of carrying on the reft of the intended 
improvements, the whole or the greateft part of the 10 fer cent. 
affeffment. 
Sir James lived only to fee the commencement of the great 
works which he had projected. In fpring 1787, he went to 
Harrowgate for the recovery of his health, but without the ap- 
pearance of any alarming complaint. The waters had not the 
fuccefs which was expected. In the month of June, his indifpo- 
fition was much increafed, and terminated in a fever. He died: 
on the 1ft day of July 1787, in the 47th year of hisage. His re- 
mains were conveyed to Edinburgh, and depofited in the Gray- 
friars Church-yard. On this occafion, the Magiftrates and 
Council, and the Principal and Profeffors of the Univerfity, at- 
tended in their gowns of office, to teftify their refpect for his 
character, and their fenfe of the importance of his fervices ; 
and the public in general lamented fincerely, that a man fo ac- 
tive and zealous, and fo much fuperior to narrow and felfifh 
views, was not fpared to complete what he had fo happily 
begun. 
In private life, he was affable and cheerful, warmly attached 
to his friends, and anxious for their fuccefs. In bufinefs and 
in his public exertions, he was upright, liberal, difinterefted 
and patriotic: And he poffeffed, in no common degree, thofe 
talents which are requifite for rendering benevolence effectual 5 
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Account of 
Sir James Hun 
ter Blair. 
