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the work to which I have alluded, and enter- 

 tained a particular regard for him to the end 

 of his life. When he made the tour of France^ 

 the letters of introdudtion, which he procured 

 from this iliuftrious philofopher, were of the 

 greateft fervice ; and he was likewife mtJch 

 indebted to his friendfhip, when he afterwards 

 fettled as a phyfician at Berwick on Tweed. 



While Dr. Bell was purfuing his ftudies at 

 Edinburgh, his elder brother, to whofe mofl; 

 affedionate care he was highly indebted, met 

 an untimely and unexpected fate. In the 

 autumn of the year 1776, he perifhed in bath- 

 ing in the river Kirtle, near the bottom of his 

 own garden. This admirable young man was 

 bred to the Scotch law. His talents and his 

 -virtues made his life moft honourable, and his 

 early death mod deeply lamented. 



Soon after his graduation, Dr. Bell removed 

 from Edinburgh to LondoUi with the view of 

 completing his education, and after a winter's 

 refidence there, he pafled over into France. Ac 

 tliis time, he relaxed from the feverity of his 

 ftudies, and mingled more than might, from, 

 his former habits, have been expeded, in the 

 fcenes of gaiety and pleafure with which Paris 

 abounds. 



In the latter end of the year 1778, he returned 

 to Scotland. Some part of that, and the fucceed- 

 ing winter, he fpent in Edinburgh, and, during 



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