ce of the Eaft India Company; and there is fomethingfmgular in his hiftory. He contrived to raife himfelf from the ELGIN CATHEDRAL. 165 condition of a private foldier to that honourable rank, entirely byhis own merits. He had no patrimony but genius and ambi-tion 5 there was fomething even below… … ELGIN CATHEDRAL : CHOIR. boy; and this I humbly conceive to be, in one fenfe, thegreateft curiofity about Elgin. In a crib, not more than fivefeet fquare, furrounded by melancholy ruins, and the dread-infpiring precincSls of a churchyard, Anderfon fpent all hisearly years j the boy, who was on this…
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