56 JOHN DUNCAN, WEAVER AND BOTANIST. 



that he burst into fame as the " Inverurie poet" After 

 a brilliant, but meteoric, career, in which he was thrice 

 feted in London, he died in 1848 at Dundee, where he 

 now lies buried. There is no proof that Thorn and 

 Duncan, fellow-weavers though they were, ever met. Nor 

 is it very likely that the quiet-going John Duncan moved 

 in the same circle with the jovial " Willie Tarn." 



