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made a journey on foot, in October, 1785, in company 

 with Charles Thrograorton, Esq. and Mr. EUcock, 

 of Dublin, through part of the Highlands of Scotland, 

 and visited Glasgow, Inverary, and Inverness. His 

 character was now rising rapidly at Edinburgh. That 

 he enjoyed the esteem of the great Cullen, appears 

 by a letter dated January, 1786. For two successive 

 years he was elected one of the Presidents of the 

 Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. He was elected 

 also President of the society, *^ for the further inves- 

 tigation of natural history." These honours, con- 

 ferred by a great, a learned, and a proud nation, on 

 a youth, a stranger, one whose country had but just 

 risen into existence, are the surest testimonies of un- 

 common merit. We contemplate them not only with 

 pleasure, but with pride. Their lustre is reflected 

 from the man to the country which gave him birth. 



About the year 1785, he was received into the 

 house of Doctor Charles Stewart, a most respectable 

 Physician of Edinburgh, with whom he lived during 

 the remainder of the time that he spent in that city. 

 Of this favour he was highly sensible. He always 

 remembered it with gratitude, and spoke of it with 

 pleasure. 



In Tunc, 1786, he took his degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine in the University of Edinburgh ; his Inaugu- 



