to their health and morals, as the circumstances of their employment can permit. The quantity of yarn fpun here was lately calculated to be greater than that spun at all the other cotton-works in Scotland taken together. But new cotton-works have been fince erected in different parts of North Britain; and large quantities of cotton-yarn are ftill imported from England. The view in the plate was taken from a station in the wood of Corehouse, on the fouth-fide of the river Clyde. The burgh of Lanark, and W the famous water-falls of Corehouse and Stonebyres are near. The environs are populous, and their fcenery beautiful and picturefque. Already has the eftablishment of thefe cottonworks begun to improve the afpect, and to enliven the industry of all the neighbourhood. In their progrefs, new roads will probably be found here, canals cut, and opulence and improvement, diffufed all around. The merchant and the manufacturer who, improving their own fortunes, thus effentially ferve their country, are well entitled to that praife of patriotjfm which they fever fail to obtain. SOME ACCOUNT OF DR WILLIAM HUNTER. ILLIAM HUNTER, a phyfician and anatomift ; a native of Scotland, with a confiderable fhare of that fagacity which characterizes the inhabitants of that kingdom, in which, as learning is procured at a cheaper rate, it is of courfe more generally diffufed; a circumftance, which enables Scotchmen to avail themselves of thofe fortunate contingencies whic hare faid, at one time or other, to prefent themselves in the life of every man, but which the illiterate, the dull, the indolent, or the fenfual, either neglect, or cannot avail themselves of. He came to London with no other helps, than the fruitful refources of a mind ftored with professional knowledge, but he found them ample and fufficient. As an anatomical lecturer, and an accoucheur, he gradually advanced into notice; and I have been told, by profeffional men, that confiderable, and useful difcoveries, were made by the joint efforts of Dr Hunter, and the ingenious Mr Hewfon, in a fyftem of veffels, called Lymphatics. He also published propofals for a series of copper-plates, on fubjects in his own particular branch of practice; a work afterwards finished, at once fplendid, expenfive, and aided by every afliftance that accuracy, or firstrate artifts could furnish. It frequently afforded him matter of regret, that plates, defcriptive of fubjects of fcience, were too often fervilely copied from former writers, to fave the trouble of actual occular infpection, by diffecting; a charge which I have never heard produced against himself. Being a fingle man, and not expenfive, his fortune increafed with his fame, and he was enabled to build himself a capacious houfe, and anatomical theatre, with a museum for the reception of his books, medals, preparations, and other curiofities. He had previously applied, by letter, to a Secretary of State for the time, I believe (but am not certain) it was Lord Hillsborough, to know if a piece of ground, in a proper fitua-.. tion, could be granted him by government, as he confidered it a national object. But minifters have other things to attend to, and it is probable, that Dr Hunter's letter was forgot among the hurry of American negociations, and the bustle of contested elections. Confcious of the eminence on which which he ftood, which placed him as a benefactor to mankind, far above kings, or the favourites of kings, Hunter took fire at the treatment. He addreffed the fecretary in manly, bold, but refpectful language: he told his lordship, he was not afking a favour, but conferring one; that he would now give him no further trouble, as he was refolved to rely rather on his own private refources, than the generofity of the public. It was a language, which none but fools and cowards ever take offence at, which minds, truly great, are confcious is the proper mode, by which man ought to be addreffed by man. A happy and a peculiar art of communicating inftruction was the diftinct characteristic merit of this gentleman: clear, concife, and patient, he amused the volatile, while he fixed their attention: the dull of of comprehenfion and the timid, he led by the hand, with the anxiety and temper of a parent: the ardent, the curious, and the diligent, he interested, gratified, and rewarded. Few men, I believe, fent pupils out into the world with more obligations to their profeffor. Be diligent, "deferve well, and you must fuc"ceed," was his animating advice to young men, on their launching into life. writer, fpeaking of Dr Hunter, It has been juftly obferved by a "that we do not often meet with "that liberality of difpofition, "which makes the poffeffors of colqualification is adverted to: these their stores, and to diffufe both the "lections eager to communicate I have fomewhere feen fome lines on his death, in which this didactic "tafte for fcience, as well as the I believe are fome of them :- "Dead are thofe lips, on which instruction "Fix'd are thofe eyes, enlivening all he "faid; "For ever mute is that perfuafive tongue! "When a dry fubject claim'd the win "ter's eve, "With useful knowledge he the pleasing means for gratifying it. Content"ed with their own enjoyments, or "the limited applause of a narrow "circle, they defire no more. To "collect is often to hide. A con 66 trary conduct does not always en"fure applaufe; and thofe, whom "the cynic cannot censure as avaricious, he will fometimes defpife as ❝ vain. ACCOUNT "mix'd; 9 ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF DR DRYSDALE : FROM DRYSDALE'S SERMONS, PUBLISHED BY PROFESSOR DALZEL. DR R JOHN DRYSDALE was born at Kirkaldy, in the county of Fife, on the 29th of April 1718; being the third fon of the Rev. Mr John Dryfdale, minifter of Kirkaldy, and of Anne Fergufon, daughter of William Ferguson, Efq. Provost or chief Magiftrate of the fame town, He received the elements of claffical learning at the parish school, under David Miller, a man who had alfo the honour of inftructing the celebrated Adam Smith, and James Of wald of Dunikeir, perfons who have reflected fo much luftre on their country, the one as a philofopher and man of letters, and the other as an eminent ftatesmán. Under the fame mafter, were alfo educated Dr John "Ofwald, Bishop of Raphoe, in Ireland, and Dr George Kay, one of the minifters of Edinburgh, men likewife of confiderable talents and accomplishments. So that Miller had reafon to boaft that few individual masters of the most opulent and celebrated schools, had fent from their tuition a greater number of eminent men,than had been fent by him from the obfcure school of Kirkaldy. While at fchool, John Dryfdale greatly diftinguifhed himself as a claffical scholar; and there he contracted that strict friendhip with the moft eminent of his fchool-fellows, particularly Mr Ofwald and Mr Smith, which continued unimpaired through life. When he was thought to be fufficiently prepared for the University, to which young men go at a much earlier period in this country than in England, he was fent to college at Edinburgh, in the year 1732. He there profecuted his flu dies with great fuccefs, and foon at tracted the notice of the profeffors, by the rapid progrefs he made in the acquisition of knowledge. After paf B fing through the ordinary courses of languages and philofophy, he engaged in the ftudy of divinity, the ultimate object of his repairing to the univerfity; and having profecuted this the ufual time, he was admitted to trials, according to the forms of the Church of Scotland, before the prefbytery of Kirkaldy; and by them licensed to preach the gofpel, in the year 1740. Having, for feveral years, been employed as affiftant minister in the college church at Edinburgh, He, in the year 1748, obtained a crown prefentation to the church of Kirklifton in West Lothian, by the intereft of the late John Earl of Hopetoun, to whom he had been recommended by William Adam, Efq. of Maryburgh, architect; whofe third daughter he afterwards married. In entering upon this charge, he met with fome flight oppofition, owing to an opinion induftriously propagated, that the file and method of his preaching were not fufficiently popular, and that his difcourfes con tained too great a proportion of the doctrines of morality. But this objection was foon obviated, after the people of the parish became betteracquainted with him; among whom he had not remained long, till he became the obje& of a very general regard and efteem, not only by the kindnefs of his difpofition and his unwearied beneficence, but from the interefting and animated manner in which he inculcated the great truths of religion and morality in his fermons.-Even the loweft of the people refpected and revered his character; fuch was the fuccefs with which his inftructions were attended, that it was observed of the morals of the inhabitants of the village in par. ticular, which had been formerly noted |