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ELGIN CATHEDRAL.

moft wretched and defpifed of all the boys in the town, being-
all the time deftined to reach fuperior honours, and make
provifion for numbers of fuch outcafts as himfelf. Let the
ftranger inquire for, enter, and ponder upon, this humble cradle
of genius and greatnefs.”