ACCOUNT 
OF THE 
LIFE OF MU'NGO PARK. 
JVIuNGO Park was born on the 10th of September 1771, 
at Fowlshiels, a farm occupied by his father, under the 
duke of Buccleugh, on the banks of the Yarrow not far 
from the town of Selkirk. His father, who bore the same 
name, was a respectable yeoman of Ettrick Forest. His 
mother, who is still living, is the daughter of the late 
Mr. John Hislop, of Tennis, a few miles higher upon the 
same river. The subject of this Memoir was the seventh 
child, and third son of the family, which consisted of 
thirteen children, eight of whom attained to years of 
maturity. 
Prior to the time of Mungo Park's birth, the father had 
for many years practised farming with assiduity and success 
on the estate at Fowlshiels, where he died in 1792, after a 
long and exemplary life, at the age of seventy-seven. 
Among other estimable qualities which distinguished 
the father's character, was a constant and unremitting 
attention to the education of his children ; a species of 
