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The valuable library that he had collected he bequeathed, together with the rest of his property, to his cousin Mr. DAVID DOUGLAS, Advocate. In the education of this young gentleman, he had employed much of his leisure; and it was only two years before his death, (at a time when he could ill spare the pleasure of his society,) that he had fent him to ftudy law at Glasgow, under the care of Mr. MILLAR;---the strongest proof he could give of his disinterested zeal for the improvement of his friend, as well as of the esteem in which he held the abilities of that eminent Profeffor.

The executors of his will were Dr. BLACK and Dr. HUTTON; with whom he had long lived in habits of the most intimate and cordial friendship; and who, to the many other teftimonies which they had given him of their affection, added the mournful office of witneffing his laft moments..

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ONDER, Surprise, and Admiration, are words which, though often confounded, denote, in our language, fentiments that are indeed allied, but that are in some respects different also, and distinct from one another. What is new and fingular, excites that fentiment which, in strict propriety, is called Wonder; what is unexpected, Surprise; and what is great or beautiful, Admiration.

We wonder at all extraordinary and uncommon objects, at all the rarer phænomena of nature, at meteors, comets, eclipfes, at fingular plants and animals, and at every thing, in fhort, with which we have before been either little or not at all acquainted; and we still wonder, though forewarned of what we are to fee.

We are surprised at those things which we have seen often, but which we least of all expected to meet with in the place where we find them; we are surprised at the fudden appearance of a friend, whom we have seen a thousand times, but whom we did not imagine we were to see then.

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