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the Agricultural Congress at Paris, and to the incorrect statements in it as to the steam-power 

 experiments at Yester in 1848 ; and he vindicated the claim of his father to be considered the 

 maker of the first drain-tile-making machine, one of which was exhibited at the Highland Society's 

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The Chiselhurst museum (bequeathed with his scientific books to Capt. AVardlaw Ramsay) 

 was transferred to Yester, and the house became a centre of intelligent and enlightened interest 

 in the county. It is not for us to speculate on " what might have been ;" but there is reason to 

 fear that in all this anxiety for the good of others Lord Tweeddale, whose health had not been very 

 strong, was too indifferent to his own ; and it was remarked when he returned from Germany 

 with Lady Tweeddale that he was not looking well, though he did not complain of more than 

 headache and slight nervousness. Towards the close of 1878 the Marchioness and he were 

 staying at AValden Cottage. He had been engaged in his usual pursuits, and had been up to 

 London several times, going down generally, if not invariably, the same day ; but on one occasion 

 when he was expected on business he was unable to leave the house, owing to a severe cold ; 

 congestion and inflammation of the lungs set in with fatal celerity, and after five days' illness 

 he passed quietly away. His last words, whispered to his wife ere consciousness left him, were, 

 " I firmly believe in the Son of God." He died on 22nd December, 1878. 



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