OF^HE 



UNIVERSITY 



CHAPTER II. 



(Continued.) 



I LEAVE THE HIGH SCHOOL AT BROUGHAM WITH A TUTOR TALE 

 AFTER THE MANNER OF RASSELAS I ENTER THE COLLEGE OF 

 EDINBURGH - WITH FOLKESTONE, AFTERWARDS LORD RADNOR 



- MY EARLY EFFORTS IN MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS 

 OPTICS, CHEMISTRY JOSEPH BLACK, JAMES WATT MY FIRST 

 SPEECH AT THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY I STUDY ORATORY 



- 1 FOUND THE JUVENILE LITERARY SOCIETY - BECOME A 

 MEMBER OF THE SPECULATIVE SOCIETY - PEDESTRIAN RAM- 

 BLES APOLLO CLUB, AND HIGH JINKS FEATS OF EDINBURGH 



BURSCHEN HERON'S PLAY DAMNED i GO ON A YACHTING 



EXPEDITION AMONG THE WESTERN ISLES - MY FELLOW-TRAVEL- 

 LER CHARLES STUART (STUART DE ROTHSAY) ISLAY LIFE AT 

 SEA ST KILDA STORNOWAY CROSS TO ELSINORE. 



HAVIXG finished with the High School, I passed the 

 next fourteen months, from August 179L to Octo- 

 ber 1792, at Brougham, where Mr Mitchell was -my 

 tutor a man of excellent temper as well as sound 

 learning, who intended to take orders in the Scotch 

 Church. By his conversation on every subject, it 

 was impossible not to profit; and his moral maxims 

 were as enlightened as his opinions on literary and 



