JIEJIOIU OF JOHN HUNTER. 
69 
*•^6 papers ; tliougli tliey are still preserved in its 
Archives. 
breac’n thus made was loo wide to be healed, 
nliam Hunter survived for three years, but it does 
appear that the brothers ever again met on 
lendly terms. At his death, Dr Hunter, though 
*y aware of Ids brother's embarrassments, did not 
^*^6 him a single shilling of his spletulid fortune ; 
’^®y> he conveyed to a more distant relation, the fa- 
|®’ly property of Long Calderwood, and allowed his 
'’’other no share in the superintendence of his 
’’Oseuin. To the honour of the late Dr Baillie, the 
|’®phew of the brothers, and the residuary legatee, 
'‘"gbt to ho recorded, that he lost no time in coni- 
®ying the family e.state, as well as the lands of Kil- 
"^ble, to Mr John Hunter. 
b)r Hunter’s last illness having been protracted 
about ten davs, 
Portu 
John availed himself of the op- 
j . onity to ask permission to visit the dying bed of 
®”ly brother, patron, and instructor, and the re- 
Was complied with ; but we have it not in out 
power to state that there was any mutual explanatioii 
earty reconciliation. The survivor felt the parl- 
or h 
ini 
S Scene most severely. The melancholy event oc-i 
””1 just at the conclusion of his course of lec- 
to circumstances having led him to allude 
^ 't in the class, an eye-witness informs us that Mr 
’inter seemed to finish, yet to have more to say ; 
'cogth appearing as if he had just recollected 
at 
^ometli 
”ng, he began , — “ Ho ! Gentlemen, one thing 
