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DAVID BREWSTER, LL.D. 





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GENTLEMEN EMIM:\T IN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. 



IX KicniTEEN VOLUMES. 



VOLUME XL 



EDINBURGH: 



I'lIlN Ti:i) IOH WILLIAM BLACKWOOD; 

 DJOHM \\ \MH. KMI.N '.JOHN MIHHAV ; BALDWIN & CRADCK K 



J. M RICHARDSON, LONDON; AND THE OTHER PROPRIETORS. 



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