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their vanity anonymous fame might be, yet the solid 

 gratification produced by liberal pay would be quite 

 as effectual. I think the editor began at 300 a-year, 

 and the contributors at 10 guineas a-sheet; but before 

 long these payments were raised. The sums paid to 

 the writers was left entirely to Jeffrey. 



Even as late as September the progress was very 

 slow, although by that time part of the first number 

 had been printed; but articles did not come in as 

 quickly as Smith expected, so that, hard-worked as I 

 then was with my ' Colonial Policy/ I was obliged to 

 write several articles in addition to the two ('Olivier's 

 Travels ' and ' "Wood's Optics ') I had prepared as my 

 contribution. To these I added, ' Horneman's Travels,' 

 'Acerbi's Travels/ Tlayfair on the Huttonian Theory/ 

 and an article on the ' Sugar Colonies/ 



In September 1855, John Murray was staying at 

 Brougham. We were talking one day of the selec- 

 tions I had recently been asked to make from my 

 articles in the ' Edinburgh Eeview/ for publication by 

 Messrs Griffin, when my brother suggested that Mur- 

 ray and I should sit down and put the names of their 

 authors to all the early numbers, he and I being the 

 last survivors of the first contributors. We worked 

 at this for ten or twelve days. Murray sent to Edin- 

 burgh for some contemporary notes he Had; and these, 

 with our own recollections, enabled us to make a very 

 full and correct list. 



Eef erring to this I find that the writers in the early 



