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he refided. Here he continued feveral years, and 

 made a rapid progrefs in clafTical literature. In 

 the year 1769, Mr. Wright being appointed mini- 

 fter of the parifh of New Abbey, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Dumfries, gave up public teaching-, but 

 Dr. Bell was continued fome time longer in his 

 family, as a private pupil. Under the care of 

 this excellent fcholar, he had great advantages. 

 At the time he left him, which was before the 

 completion of his fifteenth year, he had obtained 

 a perfect acquaintance with the Roman cladics, 

 a competent knowledge of Greek, he was ini- 

 tiated in the French language, was well fl<illed 

 in geography, hiflory, and the elements of ma- 

 thematics, and had commenced a critic in the 

 Englifh Belles Lettres. 



In the autumn of the year 1770, he was fent 

 to the univcrfity of Glafgow, where he continued 

 for one fefTion, in the purfuits of general ftudy. 

 In the latter end of* 177 1, he was removed to 

 Edinburgh, and began his profeffional ftudies un- 

 der the care and direction of his friend and rela- 

 tion Mr. Benjamin Bell, whofe name is now well 

 known in the medical world. At this univerfity 

 he continued till the fummer of the year J 777, 

 when he obtained the degree of Doflor of Me- 

 dicine, and publifhed the Inaugural Difiertation, 

 to which you are about to give a place in your 

 records. During this long period. Dr. Bell 

 had time to apply himfelf, not only to the vari- 

 ous 



