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which now connects, by an eafy and fpacious communication, 

 the fuburbs on the fouth with the reft of the city. 



Within little more than two years, (fuch was the activity 

 of the managers), the bridge was completely finifhed ; and al- 

 though the expence, including the firft purchafe of the pro- 

 perty, amounted to not lefs than L. 63,000, yet it is expected, 

 when the areas which ftill remain to be 'fold are difpofed of, 

 and the prices of thofe already fold are paid up, that the tru- 

 ftees for the bridge will be enabled to pay over to the Magi- 

 ftrates, for the purpofe of carrying on the reft of the intended 

 improvements, the whole or the greateft part of the 10 per cent. 

 affeffment. 



Sir James lived only to fee the commencement of the great 

 works which he had projected. In fpring 1787, he went to 

 Harrowgate for the recovery of his health, but without the ap- 

 pearance of any alarming complaint. The waters had not the 

 fuccefs which was expected. In the month of June, his indifpo- 

 fition was much increafed, and terminated in a fever. He died 

 on the 1 ft day of July 1787, in the 47th year of his age. His re- 

 mains were conveyed to Edinburgh, and depofited in the Gray- 

 friars Church-yard. On this occafion, the Magiftrates and 

 Council, and the Principal and ProfefTors of the Univerfity, at- 

 tended in their gowns of office, to teftify their refpect for his 

 character, and their fenfe of the importance of his fervices y 

 and the public in general lamented fincerely, that a man fo ac- 

 tive and zealous, and fo much fuperior to narrow and felfifh 

 views, was not fpared to complete what he had fo happily 

 begun. 



In private life, he was affable and cheerful, warmly attached 

 to his friends, and anxious for their fuccefs. In buftnefs and 

 in his public exertions, he was upright, liberal, difinterefted 

 and patriotic : And he pofTefTed, in no common degree, thofe 

 talents which are requifite for rendering benevolence effectual ; 



(E 2) for 



Account of 

 Sir James Hun 

 ter Blair. 



