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scription was opened for that purpose. * This 
canal is now finished, from Loch Crinan, on 
the west, to Loch Gilp, omthe east ; commu- 
nicating with the Firth of Clyde; and the 
masters of the vessels which have gone 
through it, acknowledge the great facility 
and safety of the passage; “advantages that 
. are open to all vessels navigating the west 
coast of Scotland and England, and east and 
noith coasts of Ireland, besides affording them 
immediate shelter from a’ stormy sea, and an 
opportunity to be laid dry to repair damages. 
The length of the canal, from sea to sea, is 
nine mites. The present depth of water is 11 
feet. The locks are ninety-six-feet long, 
and twenty four feet wide, in the clear. 
Married.} At View Forth, Mr. William 
Marshall, Edinburgh, to Miss Calder, daugh- 
ter of the Right Hon. William Calder, Lord 
Proyost of Edinburgh. 
Died.|. At Aberdeen, Robert Eden Scot, 
esq. professor of philosophy in King’s Col- 
lege. 
At Braehead Abbey, in the parish of Pais- 
ley, Marion Stevenson, aged 95 years. She 
was married in 1723, had only one son and 
daughter, and has left 15 grand-children, 40 
great grand-children, and 10 great great 
grand-children. She had seen 7 generations, 
five of whom were alive at one time. 
At St. Margaret’s Hope, Orkney; William 
Sutherland, esq. 70. Much of his time and 
fortune was spent in acts of benevolence and 
charity. He has begueathed 2001. sterling 
to the pcor of the north parish of South Ro 
naldsay, his native parish. 
At Craigow, Dr. John Rutherford, physi- 
cian. This ingenious gentleman, besides 
“many other scientific and useful discoveries, 
was the inventor of a very curious instrument, 
the self-regulating thermometer, by which 
the greatest degree of cold, that has hap. 
pened during the day or night, can be ascer- 
tained with the greatest accuracy. 
At Bogbain, near Inverness, Alexander 
Macrae, a native of Kintail, at the advanced’ 
age of 104. He managed until very lately, 
the grazing of Bogbain, belonging to Mr. 
M‘Kenzie, banker in Inverness, and retained 
his mental faculties until the last. 
_ At Hope-street, Edinburgh, Miss Helen 
Amelia Colquhoun, youngest daughter of the 
late Humphrey C. esq. of Jamaica.—Mrs. 
Greig, wife of Captain Charles G. late in the 
service of the East India Company. 
At Glasgow, in the 63d year of his age, 
Mr. John Reekie, teacher of the Greek ahd 
Latin languages. Though his whole life had 
been laboriously devoted to the instruction:of 
youth in the principles of Greek and Roman 
literature, he yet found means to acquire a 
critical acquaintance with the ancient classics, 
anda profound knowledge of the structure of 
their languages, which has not been surpassed 
in any period; and is perhaps without parallel 
in the present. A happy sagacity, aided by 
® memory uncommonly retentive, had ena~ 
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bled his unwearied zeal to surmount many 
obstacles which had baffled the most cele~ 
brated scholars; and his numerous manu- 
scripts display, imévery page, proofs of origi- 
nal and luminous investigation. It is to be. 
lamented, as an irreparable l9ss to the learned 
world, that these writings, rich in new views 
and illustrations of many of the mogt intricate 
and obscure pages of antiquity, sacred and 
profane, should have been left by his death, 
in the state rather of desultory notes, than of 
commentaries fit for publication. His exten- 
sive library is composed chiefly of the scarcest 
and most valuable editions of the classics, 
Supposed to contain a collection of Greele © 
grammars, perhaps unequalled by any other 
in the kingdom. His vast erudition was not 
encumbered, as we too often seé it, with 
pedantic state, and solemn ostentation; on 
the contrary, he was characterized by a play- 
ful simplicity of manner, and a liberal dispo-~ 
sition to communicate, in the plainest and 
most expressive style, his stores of learning. 
His last illness was lingering and painful. He 
bore it wich the firmness of a philosopher, and 
contemplated its issue with the pious resignae. 
tion of a christian. . 
At Wigten, Mrs. Elizabeth Furness, 105. 
At Crimond, John Cowie, bellmdn, 108. | 
At Dumfries, aged 90, Mr. John Gass, 
barber and wig maker, who used to boast of 
having done what no other man dared; —of 
having taken the Pretender by the nose, in 
1745. ; 
At Endinburgh, lady Sarah, wife of Da- 
niel Collyer, jun. esq. Wroxam, Norfolk,. 
and youngést daughter, of the earl of Fife, 
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At Maudslie* Castle, Thomas, earl of 
Hynford, lord Carmichael. 
At Castle Grant, Sir James Grant, bart. 
His virtues, as an individual, will long be. 
cherished in the recollection of his friends ; 
the excellence of his public character will 
be not less warmly remembered in the 
district over which he presided, not so 
much by holding the property of the soil, 
as by possessing the attachment, the grati- 
tude, and the confidence of its inhabitants. 
He had all the affections, without any of 
the pride, or any of the harshness of feudal 
superiority ; and never forgot, in attention 
to his own interests, or in the improvement 
of his extensive estates, the interests or the . 
comforts of the people, Amidst the varied, 
situations, and some of the severe trials of 
life, he was uniformly guided by rectitude of 
principle, benevolence of disposition, and 
he most fervent, though rational piety. - 
From these, he derived support and resig-- 
nation during the long progress of a painful. 
disease, and felt their best consolations, at 
the close of a life devoted to his family, 
his friends, his dependents, and his “coun- 
try. 
Yat Aberdeen, James Allardyce, esq. cole 
lector of the customs of that-port.. - : 
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