MEMOIR OF DR. WALKER. . 21 



After the rebellion of 1745, the act which an- 

 nexed the forfeited estates to the crown declared the 

 special purposes of that annexation to be for " civi- 

 lizing the inhabitants on the said estates and those 

 of the other parts of the Highlands and Islands of 

 Scotland; promoting among them the Protestant 

 religion, good government, industry, and manufac- 

 tures, and the principles of loyalty, and no other 

 purposes." The produce of the estates was to be 

 expended on the erection of schools for the educa- 

 tion of youth, to instruct them in agriculture and 

 manufactures, and also to erect and institute manu- 

 factures; and the execution of these great and 

 benevolent public purposes was , entrusted to com- 

 missioners, under the title of " The Board of An- 

 nexed Estates," of which Lord Kames was one of 

 the most active members. Dr. Walker, who was 

 then a frequent visitor of his lordship's, gives the 

 following pleasing trait of his attention to the poor 

 claimants. 



" I have frequently visited him of a morning ; 

 and his breakfast, which was at an early hour, was 

 a very elegant one, and usually a sort of levee," 

 " and I seldom missed finding in the lobby some 

 tradesmen or countrymen, who came to speak to 

 him about applications they had made to the Board 

 of Trustees for bounties or premiums for new inven- 

 tions, or to the Commissioners of Annexed Estates ; 

 and all such applications he listened to with the 

 utmost attention. To do Mrs. Drummond justice, 



