uninhabited, now in half-savage islands; his winters were set
apart, first at the Andersonian Institution, then at the University
of Edinburgh to improve himself in mathematics, chemistry, natural
history, agriculture, moral philosophy, and logic; a bearded
student--although no doubt scrupulously shaved. I find one
reference to his years in class which will have a meaning for all
who have studied in Scottish Universities. He mentions a
recommendation made by the professor of logic. 'The high-school
men,' he writes, 'and BEARDED MEN LIKE MYSELF, were all attention.'
If my grandfather were throughout life a thought too studious of
the art of getting on, much must be forgiven to the bearded and
belated student who looked across, with a sense of difference, at
'the high-school men.' Here was a gulf to be crossed; but already
he could feel that he had made a beginning, and that must have been
a proud hour when he devoted his earliest earnings to the repayment
of the charitable foundation in which he had received the rudiments
of knowledge.

In yet another way he followed the example of his father-in-law,
and from 1794 to 1807, when the affairs of the Bell Rock made it
necessary for him to resign, he served in different corps of
volunteers. In the last of these he rose to a position of
distinction, no less than captain of the Grenadier Company, and his
colonel, in accepting his resignation, entreated he would do them
'the favour of continuing as an honorary member of a corps which
has been so much indebted for your zeal and exertions.'

To very pious women the men of the house are apt to appear worldly.
The wife, as she puts on her new bonnet before church, is apt to
sigh over that assiduity which enabled her husband to pay the