CONTENTS OF FIRST VOLUME. 



CHAPTER I. 

 Wit. 



PAGS 



MY BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD PRECOCITY, AS TOLD BY MY MOTHER 



PARENTAGE AND ANCESTRY WHY MY FATHER SETTLED 



IN EDINBURGH HIS MARRIAGE THERE MY MOTHER'S HIGH- 

 LAND ANCESTRY, THROUGH THE STRUAN ROBERTSONS DEATH 



OF MY PATERNAL GRANDFATHER SAVAGE FESTIVITIES AT 



HIS FUNERAL ANECDOTES TOLD ME BY MY FATHER'S MO- 

 THER CHARACTER OF MY MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER THE 



HIGH SCHOOL OF EDINBURGH DR ADAM THE RECTOR 



GILBERT STUART MY PROGRESS AT SCHOOL MY SCHOOL- 

 FELLOWS FAMILY REMINISCENCES ROBERTSON THE HIS- 

 TORIAN AND HIS FATHER THE ADAMS JOHN CLERK OF 



ELDIN HIS NAVAL TACTICS LORD BUCHAN AND HIS 



BROTHERS TOM AND HARRY ERSKINE, . . . 1-56 



CHAPTER II. 

 ^arlg EKe. 



(Continued.} 



I LEAVE THE HIGH SCHOOL AT BROUGHAM WITH A TUTOR 



TALE AFTER THE MANNER OF RASSELAS 1 ENTER THE COL- 

 LEGE OF EDINBURGH WITH FOLKESTONE, AFTERWARDS LORD 



RADNOR MY EARLY EFFORTS IN MATHEMATICS AND ME- 



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