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ELGIN CATHEDRAL.
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condition of a private foldier to that honourable rank, entirely by
his own merits. He had no patrimony but genius and ambi-
tion ; there was fomething even below poverty in his origin. A
fmall apartment is fhown amid the ruins of the cathedral, where
his mother, an indigent and infirm old widow, who could
afford no better lodging, lived for many years while he was a
ELGIN CATHEDRAL ! CHOIR.
boy; and this I humbly conceive to be, in one fenfe, the
greateft curiofity about Elgin. In a crib, not more than five
feet fquare, furrounded by melancholy ruins, and the dread-
infpiring precindis of a churchyard, Anderfon fpent all his
early years; the boy, who was on this account, perhaps, the
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condition of a private foldier to that honourable rank, entirely by
his own merits. He had no patrimony but genius and ambi-
tion ; there was fomething even below poverty in his origin. A
fmall apartment is fhown amid the ruins of the cathedral, where
his mother, an indigent and infirm old widow, who could
afford no better lodging, lived for many years while he was a
ELGIN CATHEDRAL ! CHOIR.
boy; and this I humbly conceive to be, in one fenfe, the
greateft curiofity about Elgin. In a crib, not more than five
feet fquare, furrounded by melancholy ruins, and the dread-
infpiring precindis of a churchyard, Anderfon fpent all his
early years; the boy, who was on this account, perhaps, the