MEMOIR. IX 



me consider myself a Scotchman. The 

 persecution I hence suffered produced this 

 effect completely. 



This object was afterwards promoted 

 by sending me to Dumfries school before 

 I was eleven years old. I remained at it 

 nearly two years and a half, at the expira- 

 tion of which time, I had finished the 

 course of studies usually pursued there. 

 His correspondent in Scotland then sent 

 me to Edinburgh, in the autumn of 1770. 

 I attended there several of the lower classes 

 of the University, and went also to the 

 school of a drawing master; I mention 

 this latter circumstance, particularly, be- 

 cause it was in this school that I first 

 formed an acquaintance with two of my 

 present most intimate friends, Mr. David 

 Hume, and Mr. William Miller, now better 

 known by the title of Lord Glenlee. 



I returned to Carolina in the summer of 

 1771, and a few months afterwards, was 



